Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 7 of 13

"… bodies had a unique style with a box over the wheels to give clearance and with stakes around the outside that allowed a rope or a chain to hold…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"With a power hoist, a box over the wheels for wheel clearance is no longer necessary. This truck has a flat body that can carry 40 barrels."

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

"That person would turn the wheel to that letter, open that bin, take out his mail, and close the cover."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… well as a bowling alley, merry-go-round, Ferris wheel, wooden swings, dancing pavilion, open-air stage casino, picnic spots along the shore, and…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"… equipment they had was one linen hose, one two-wheeled hose reel that they could use in the summer, and a sled they could use in the winter."

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"Superintendent Frank Kent placed the wheels in motion, and in 1948 Piscataquis Community High School was formed."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

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

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… with a homemade odometer attached to a carriage wheel to calculate distance traveled.(3) At each mile a stake was driven into the ground and a crew…"

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

"Heaters were essential for four wheeled wagons and carriages whose wheels could not easily make perpendicular turns."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… equipment which consisted of linen hose, a two wheeled hose reel, and a sled for winter use. The pay for firemen was either $3 per year or their…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"On the other side: cracker barrels, cheese wheels, beans, sugar, spices, slabs of salt fish, molasses barrels and the pot belly stove."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… wood turning plant, equipping it with a new water wheel to power the mill. Lester Henderson was influential in business and town government."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… on work tables, and in back the racks used to wheel them from the oven room, as in Smillie’s time."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"No sooner had the engine wheels made their first revolution on the new depot grounds, than some five hundred voices sent up their shouts of welcome."