Category: Economics, Agriculture, Farms & farming
Item 1057
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: North Anson Media: Photographic print
Item 5523
Bringing in the hay at Nonesuch Farm, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Scarborough Media: Photographic print
Item 148197
Opportunity Farm two fire escapes, New Gloucester, 1944
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: New Gloucester Client: Opportunity Farm Association Architect: Megquier & Jones Co.
Item 148198
Opportunity Farm cow barn end framing, New Gloucester, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1945 Location: New Gloucester Client: Opportunity Farm Association Architect: University of Maine Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture
Exhibit
Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka <em>Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England,</em> University Press of New England, 1984.)
Exhibit
A Snapshot of Portland, 1924: The Taxman Cometh
In 1924, with Portland was on the verge of profound changes, the Tax Assessors Office undertook a project to document every building in the city -- with photographs and detailed information that provide a unique view into Portland's architecture, neighborhoods, industries, and businesses.
Site Page
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Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Corn Canning Industry
"Corn Canning Industry By 1913, Maine employed 7,000 people in corn factories, one-third of them women."
Story
A Smart Horse
by Lynn Peasley Sanborn
The horse brings the hay home while the boys are swimming.
Story
Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone
A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s
Lesson Plan
Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride Companion Curriculum
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
These lesson plans were developed by Maine Historical Society for the Seashore Trolley Museum as a companion curriculum for the historical fiction YA novel "Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride" by Jean. M. Flahive (2019). The novel tells the story of Millie Thayer, a young girl who dreams of leaving the family farm, working in the city, and fighting for women's suffrage. Millie's life begins to change when a "flying carpet" shows up in the form of an electric trolley that cuts across her farm and when a fortune-teller predicts that Millie's path will cross that of someone famous. Suddenly, Millie finds herself caught up in events that shake the nation, Maine, and her family. The lesson plans in this companion curriculum explore a variety of topics including the history of the trolley use in early 20th century Maine, farm and rural life at the turn of the century, the story of Theodore Roosevelt and his relationship with Maine, WWI, and the flu pandemic of 1918-1920.