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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… in the 1840s, travel was by shanks’ mare, boat, horseback or stagecoach. In the 1600s walking from Scarborough to Portland could take two days via…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"Southgate rode into Dunstan on horseback, with all of his possessions in his saddlebags. Two years later he married Mary King, daughter of Richard…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Jeremy Nelson

"He had to ride to school on horseback and his home was 6 miles away from the school. He taught 15 students in his first year of teaching."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"Robert Southgate rode into Dunstan on horseback with all his worldly goods packed in his saddlebags."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"… and lumbermen were taken to their destinations on horseback or by carriage. Drivers, the equivalent of today's taxi drivers, were expected to keep…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"These men rode through the villages on horseback with their mailbags. Mail carriers had a pouch for each town: Strong, Kingfield, Salem…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"Starting in 1822, horseback riders delivered mail to Farmington, Strong, Phillips, Kingfield, New Portland, and Anson."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"One day when he was riding horseback, he encountered a hog that became frightened and rushed directly under the horse's hoofs."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… how long that journey used to take, on foot, on horseback, or in a stagecoach. Yet, for reasons both commercial and social, since the earliest…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"A surveyor from the town rode on horseback to the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with the request for an academy."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"… were cavalry soldiers, who traveled and fought on horseback. This was probably because of their farm background and being familiar with horses."

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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