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Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3

"One time the potato service bought about 25 farm trucks at once and they were all red and white. Those trucks cost about $1,700 each so we made a lot…"

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…"

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."

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"They grew crops of potatoes, rye, beans and pumpkins on burned over land. Bears and raccoons ate their corn so that was not a successful crop."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Holiday Events

"Potato races, Swan's Island, ca. 1950Swan's Island Historical Society Swan Islander’s would gather in Swan’s Village to participate in 4th of July…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Minturn Schoolhouse

"… Marion Stinson recalls: "...we’d take a big potato and put it in a coffee can, you know how coffee used to come about that high in the cans? We’d…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"… order to stop the Rations of Bacon and give out Potatoes – Onions and Dried Apple instead. I wish you could see some of the Bacon it is such green…"

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…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… to islanders, who shipped surplus produce such as potatoes back to Boston on the same vessels. The first regular packet (small sailing craft) line…"

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