Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"… up and onto the platform and shove it on to the wagon. You wanted solid, clean ice, you know, without snow."

Historic Hallowell - Transportation

"… cotton was brought up to the mill by horse and wagon. When the cotton was shipped out, they were brought to other places by railroad."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2

"… and his friends would take their tricycles and wagons and pretend that they were driving on the highway."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"The wooden wheels were primarily for carriages or wagons. A carriage maker is a person that makes carriages."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"A ticket was only $6.00! Horse-drawn wagons were often lined up all the way from the river to the Main Road waiting their turn to off- or on-load…"

Blue Hill Historical Society

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Owls Head Transportation Museum

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Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"Leslie Adkins wagon shop was built to paint and repair wagons. Piscataquis Valley Country Club was incorporated."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"Zina was a bridge builder, a wagon & carriage builder and a businessman in the Corn Canning Industry."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"Farm. Yard with horses, wagons, milk cans-needed) and brought new business to Lowell’s Store. Croswell's Store c."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"… student as told by Alice Hawes A horse and wagon are at your door. “Rags! Rags!” a voice yells."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"… Ruth Kidder: Often the team was harnessed and the wagon filled for a trip to White Cap in neighboring Rumford."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"Whether they are carried by a horse drawn wagon, or a 320 horsepower truck, the island spirit survives."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… the lives lived above these cellar holes, or the wagons that dug these ruts. The team members of the Western Foothills History Project fall…"

Westport Island History Committee

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"When the farmers drove their wagons to Society meetings, they brought their prize horse, cow, sheep and perhaps a pig to show off to the other…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"When they had to leave a wagon or a gun, they either burnt or cut the wheels to pieces and threw the ammunition into a mudpuddle."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"The wreck of a wagon hauling rum elicited disgust rather than compassion. Rather than attending the wounded riders and their horse, the passengers…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Imagine a wagon ride during the mid 1700s from the small settlement of ancient North Yarmouth's coastal village of Yarmouth to the early inland…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… latest footwear, the vegetable truck, the dairy wagon and even the local merchant who arrived in a large panel truck, laden with dresses and other…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"Palmer moved to Ohio, to pursue the wagon and carriage business, until his death in July of 1915. Born in Bath in 1836 to Asa Palmer and Maria…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"Horse-drawn carriages and wagons were fundamental to our farms; they were an essential mode of transportation and would remain so into the early…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"The public also has opportunities to ride in wagons, carriages, and sleighs during the nonprofit organization’s fund raisers, simulating what…"