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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789

"… Registering and Clearing Vessels, Regulating the Coasting Trade, and for Other Purposes" (often shortened to the "Coasting Law") of 1789 was a…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast One of the last places on the Maine coast to be settled by the English was the Penobscot Bay…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Picnicking, Blue Hill, 1907

"… Description Picnicking along the coast of Blue Hill in 1907. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farewell appearance of Lillian Nordica, London, ca. 1913

"… when the steamer Tasman struck a reef of the coast of New Guinea. She became ill with pneunomia and died in Batavia, Java on May 11th. 1914."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Works Cited

"… Place Names of the Penobacot Valley and the Maine Coast. Orono: The University Press, 1941. Hampden Historical Society."

Blue Hill, Maine - Mary Ellen Chase

"She wrote 39 books and countless articles, many of them dealing with the Coast of Maine and its people. (Image of Mary Ellen Chase)"

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"… many of the communities were located along the coast and on the islands. The reason for this was obvious-- there were no roads."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"… of this were Captain Benjamin Hooper and his sea coast patrol company "to Defend the Sea Coast in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay", raised at…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"… of Treasury William Crawford, passed a revised Coasting Law through Congress, which turned the entire eastern seaboard into one district and thus…"

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Revenue gunboat "Mahoning," Bangor, 1864

"… on an excursion to Bangor and the Maine coast. Martin described the boat and its guns. He wrote, "I took my son Junior & crossed to Brewer &…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Coast Guard, Yeaton later became known as the "Father of the Coast Guard." Yeaton, friend and companion to Allan, retired in 1798 to his North Lubec…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"… Thomaston and the last barkentine built on the coast. “Reine Marie Stewart,” sailing out of Panama, was sunk by a torpedo in the South Atlantic…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - U.S. Flagship Hartford

"I am on The Gunboat Kennebec currently off the coast of Mississippi. We set sail from Thomaston, Maine on October 5th."

Friends of Wood Island Light

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History Of Performing Arts On Mount Desert Island

"… Thomas-Marsh Nestled alongside Maine's central coast, the small island of Mount Desert has been a celebrated destination for vacationers and…"

Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company

"… Illustrating and Publishing Company, in the mid-coast town of Belfast, Maine. He and his small crew of photographers traveled through rural New…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY

"The coast is dotted by small, rocky islands and beaches, graceful dunes, and lush marshlands. Two long thin fingers of land create a large, naturally…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"… lived and worked throughout Biddeford, from the coast to the hills. Many of them built graceful, stately homes throughout town--some even with…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… would fish along that part of the Cape Elizabeth coast as far as and including Richmond Island. Those who went to Stratton and Bluff Islands would…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"European settlement along the Maine coast was an accidental by-product of the pursuit of fish. Early 1600s ships' logs had accounts of fishing and…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"Many of the ships built on the Maine coast were owned and crewed by locals. Fishing villages up and down the coast sent men and boats offshore."

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"This, of course, was due to the Coasting Law, which would "result in irreparable damage" to the commercial interests of the mercantile coastal…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"… and Sheepscot John, a Wabanaki leader on the coast. Places like Small Point, and the councils that took place there, were not boundaries as much as…"