This year round fishing post brought many English settlers to Scarborough in the 1600's.
What is Stratton Island?
100
your parents pay these on you house and property
What are taxes?
100
an area that collects water and flows in one direction, there are 18 in Scarborough.
What is a watershed?
100
the earliest inhabitants or people that lived in Scarborough, people of the dawn
What are the Abenaki?
200
Bread, shoes, cd's, clothes
What are goods?
200
First chestnut or oak stakes were placed in the mud, then branches were laid across to create a platform. On top of that was a large pile of salt hay that farmers used to feed their cattle.
What is a staddle?
200
There are seven of these in Scarborough so they can break a tie vote.
What is the town council?
200
there are 7 that surround our town
What are the towns of Old Orchard Beach, Saco, Buxton, Gorham, Westbrook,South Portland, Cape Elizabeth
200
the Abenaki taught settlers how to plant the three sisters
What are corn, squash and beans?
300
trading one thing for another
What is barter?
300
1658, 1820
When was Scarborough established and when did Maine become a state?
300
schools, libraries, fire department, police, public works
What are services that the town's taxes fund?
300
a special habitat that not many other places in Maine can claim to have a large amount
What is the marsh?
300
Owascoag
What is the Scarborough's old name meaning land of much grass?
400
you parents pay them for your house and land, also for goods you buy
What are taxes?
400
cloth or fabric was made from many materials, one popular material was from an animal and the other was grown in Maine and looked like a grass with blue flowers. These materials are still used today
What is sheep wool and linen made from flax?
400
the person who oversees all the town spending
What is the town manager?
400
before roads were built this used to be the fastest way to travel
What is by boat?
400
disease such as small pox, measles,and influenza
What killed more native americans that guns?
500
schools, fire department, police, public works
What do taxes provide for our town?
500
trees were marked with three slashes if they were large enough to be made into a mast for ships and sent to England
What is the Kings broad arrow?
500
the three kinds of taxes are local and two others( think bigger:)
What are state and federal taxes?
500
The county we live in
What is Cumberland?
500
Most Abenaki's were considered this until the settlers began to take over the land and resources.