Maine Memory Network

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

"Workers make sure the potatoes and rocks are separated. A conveyors dumps the potatoes directly into a bulk body truck No more barrels, no more…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 2 of 13

"A person would not want to be in the way. It's likely that this type of digger bruised potatoes. Needless to say, this rotating arms design did not…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"Occasionally, a rock would embed between the lags while the digger is working, causing the lags to come apart."

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 - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2

"… farmed with horses that would pull big drags with rocks piled on it. The drag would make flat paths. That looked like little roads."

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

"A former student recalls: "Yep, and ‘course the stuff used to run right down the rocks and everything and in the wintertime we’d slide down it."

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

"His potatoes and turnips had kept well and the settlers used the potatoes for seed that year. Other important facts are known about Stephen and his…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"Gleason, attend to the objects of the wood, the rock, the teams, the hay, the wood for home consumption, the care of the buildings, and everything…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… surrounding islands is unlike that of any other rocks in Maine. The entire island is located on what is called the Turtle Head Fault, so named for…"