Maine Memory Network

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…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"Once cut, horses and oxen, shod in bog shoes, hauled the harvested hay to staddles. To increase acreage yields, large-scale diking was undertaken."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"… a four-wheeled car that is pulled by two or more horses. He may have been the only wheelwright and carriage maker in Lincoln at that time period."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"… worked as a heat engine that performed mechanical work using steam as the working fluid. To use the water, they piped it from a dam into a pipe…"

Skowhegan Community History - Farming in the Skowhegan Area

"Later, horses were used to cultivate the soil and work the farm and eventually the gas engine took over the work."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… a Marlin Spike, 2 augers, a crow bar To shoeing a horse To mending a Mill Bar for Sam’l Wheeler Contra By a pair of boots By a bushel of corn By1…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… were pulled out of the forests with teams of horses or oxen. Water powered sawmills were built on streams at the head of the harbor and Peters…"

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

"It was tough. Teams of horses and oxen would haul the ice down our ice house and then other workers would shove it up the ramp into the ramp and…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"We would watch the milkman come with a horse and carriage. It wasn’t very sanitary I don’t believe. Are there any similarities between now and then…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… heading to the railroad station, often using horse-drawn buggies for transportation. Liveries were common in the age of the railroad, and a large…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"… birch logs six miles to the mill with one pair of horses. The next year, the new steam log hauler made its first trip to the woods."

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"The cattle, sheep, goats, work horses, hogs and poultry on display range from magnificent to humble and show that animal husbandry is not gone from…"

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"Lenny Breau Hal Lone Pine on horse, ca. 1945Maine Historical Society The Breau family lived on a farm in Auburn where they kept two horses and…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The ice was cut by hand. After the snow was scraped from the area, the ice was plowed out. The ice plow was a weighted, horse-drawn machine with a…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The ice was cut by hand. After the snow was scraped from the area, the ice was plowed out. The ice plow was a weighted, horse-drawn machine with a…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… Point or Parker Point where they might be met by horse-drawn carriages to take them up Tenney Hill to George Stover's new Blue Hill Inn on what is…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"Horses, obtained in Caribou in 1871, were used to plow and to assist in clearing the land the next summer."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… 10 cents for someone on foot, 31 cents for a horse and carriage, and 3 cents apiece for sheep or pigs."

Music in Maine - Country Music

"… Historical Society Dick Curless with horse, Bangor, ca. 1979Maine Historical Society Dick Curless (1932-1995) from Fort Fairfield rose to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"The big barn, while continuing to stable horses and farm equipment also became part of a taxi and vehicle storage business established in 1926 by…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… over Scottow's Hill, but the hill was so steep horses had to be switched at the top to complete the journey."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"Isaiah had noticed the commander’s horse get killed, and he brought his horse to his commander. Then Isaiah ran into the woods, and he slept in…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… 4 Commissioned Officers; - 43 Privates; 60 Horses and Mules; A large lot of Boots & shoes; cloth ect. ect."

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

"… for ten years, before being thrown from a horse, fracturing her hip. She never recovered the use of her hip but lived an additional 20 years."