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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"This exhibit will concentrate on the harvesting aspect of the potato industry. With the arrival of railroads, new markets were opened for Aroostook…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 2 of 5

"The seeds were potatoes from the year before. The potatoes would be on a rack and as they went by, Edwena would cut them into four pieces."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - King Farm, Presque Isle, ca. 1920

"… was probably powered by the sprayer wheels.The potato plants appear to be in blossom, so the photograph was taken sometime in late July, ca. 1920."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Fred Urquhart Farm, Presque Isle

"… fertilizer per acre, yielding 217 barrels of potatoes this field. Common fertilizers are rated as having certain variable percentages of nitrogen…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"The potato became so important that in 1913 Thomas Phair and other leading Presque Isle businessmen convinced the state legislature to fund the…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"With mechanization of logging and potato farming, the tribe’s economic role disappeared. The people were left to fend for themselves without any…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"During the development of this plant, Gould took payment only for his expenses. The power plant opened in October of 1907."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"Outbound freight typically consisted of potatoes, lumber, starch, and hay while inbound freight was fertilizer, grain, and flour."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Working in Maine

"… jobs; the Forest Service, Bureau of Parks and Plants for Baxter State Park, and the Department of Conservation."

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Agricultural Statistics of the Colony, 1870 to 1880

"… 1871 wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn, beans, and potatoes - 166 acres planted apples - 19 trees 1873 grass - 400 acres horses - 22 oxen - 14…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"Shettleworth, Jr. Born on an Aroostook County potato farm in Merrill in 1914, Eaton Weatherbee Tarbell (1914-1992) graduated from Bangor High School…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - First Baptist Church, Bangor, ca. 1850

"… in the journal that he went to the market to buy potatoes on July 9, 1864, and took a sheet of paper with him so he could sketch the church."

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… Colony, and large amounts of wood products and potatoes were shipped off to new markets in the south."

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Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"He put the corn in a storage crib that he built and the potatoes and turnips in the ground. Stephen Titcomb had hoped to move his family to their new…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Settled in 1780, the pioneers planted corn, potatoes and turnips to get them through the first winter."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"Just a little wheat was raised and a few potatoes. Many stories have been told about that difficult year. It snowed sometime during every month."

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Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Here they planted corn and potatoes. In the fall of that year, Joseph Weston, Peter Heywood and one of the boys returned to Massachusetts to bring…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Exports were salt and smoked fish, sardines, potatoes, hay, wood and other agricultural products. By 1880 the era of sail had given way to the rise…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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