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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings
"… Society The human history of Mount Desert Island began thousands of years ago when the ancestors of the Wabanaki people came to the place they…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2
"… Society, Mount Desert Island, 1881Mount Desert Island Historical Society The origins of conservation on Mount Desert Island can be traced to a…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.
"… View across Frenchman’s Bay from Mount Desert Island after a Squall, 1845. Oil on canvas. (Cincinnati Art Museum) X The 1844 visit of New York…"
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"… who recorded the visual beauty of Mount Desert Island in their artwork, the tourist industry on Mount Desert Island was born. As a result, the A.C."
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"Malaga Island in 2012 Malaga Island By Kate Philbrick, 2009 X The community on Malaga remained relatively unchanged for many, many years from…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements
"… then “Longue Island Plantation” and then “Long Island.” In 1789, this island and the adjacent islands including Seven Hundred Acre, Job’s and Lime…"
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Westport Island History Committee
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Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island
"The island, through many changes, sometimes hard and bad, still has come to be proven as a beautiful place to visit in the town of Skowhegan."
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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods
"… was caused by ice jams at Swan Island and Browns Island but with the warming temperatures in the late winter, early spring, the winter ice on the…"
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Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook
"… center right in the distance just above the boom islands in the Kennebec. Fuller FoundryHubbard Free Library Each of the businesses that…"
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"… Wilson Men carrying a whale fin, Ragged Island, 1927Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Whaling was not a big industry in Hallowell, or…"
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Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family
"They soon built a house on Mattanawcook Island, which is on the Penobscot River, near where the mill is today."
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"Croix Island, 1797 Used by the British Secretary Ward Chapman of the St. Croix Commission (1796-1798) to help settle the dispute over the Northeast…"
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"… Bernard, who received a grant of Mount Desert Island from the General Court in 1762, was unable to get his grant confirmed until he had already…"
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"Croix Island) and Robert Pagan deposition. This relied on information shared by Passamaquoddy knowledge keepers."
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"… Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, ca. 1800Maine Historical Society Initially, however, the primary legacy of…"
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"Croix River (as well as its source), and deciding how to follow the long St. John (Wolostoq) River and its tributaries, which was made especially…"
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"… future commissions on the political fate of the islands in the bay would similarly focus on the correct interpretations of seventeenth- and early…"
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"“A “Labyrinth of Uncertainties”: Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women Proprietors in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The…"
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"… as well as other dubious land titles on Roanoke Island in North Carolina and the Bedford Plantation in Connecticut."
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Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines
"The first time it hit land was on Long Island, and New York. It hit Long Island directly as a category 2 hurricane."
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Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen
"… America in 1872 and worked in the quarry on Dix Island, in Penobscot Bay, off Rockland He was thought to have come to Hallowell with Bodwell in…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People
"Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798 Map by cartographer Chief Francis Joseph Neptune (Passamaquoddy), 1798Maine Historical Society…"