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West Quoddy Head Light Keepers Association

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Picnic, Fort Point Light, and Fort Pownal, 1865

"Picnic, Fort Point Light, and Fort Pownal, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description On page 122 of…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"Infantry and the sixth Maine Battery light artillery. To perpetuate the memory of his comrades.” The request for a gazebo was taken to the town…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Dual Steam WhistlesWest Quoddy Head Light Keepers Association By 1887 an enlarged building housed machinery for two whistles."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 1 of 2

"Sunday July 2 "came in with a light breeze southwest and fine weather" and the same but cloudy skies prevailed on July 3."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"Except for the electric light bulbs and plastic baskets, the Brining Room was basically the same traditional space."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"The Lubec Channel Light was commissioned in 1890. Shipwrecks led to the construction of a lifesaving station at Carrying Place Cove in 1874."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"Pike’s photograph shows the housing for the pump, the flexible hose that extended down into the hold of the sardine carrier, and the exterior part of…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… 1911 Centennial Celebration Centennial house decoration, Lubec, 1911 Lubec Historical Society Residents of more modest dwellings also…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"There was “putting the herring in the house by degrees,” the “handing up” and the ‘handing down,” all at the right times."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… on the far left, destined for demolition, housed the contractor’s office during construction."

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"This photo, taken around 1930, also shows the house where P.F. Jernegan lived while in North Lubec. It burned in 1957."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… as other canning companies, had to provide housing for some of its workers, and did so, as Sanborn Insurance maps reveal."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 121-end

"… changes in life -- trolleys, gas, electric street lights, and U.S. Mail boxes. He wrote again about his family's history in Ellsworth, his…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"The inn offered “Electric Lights, Long Distance Telephone, Telegraphic Office, Saddle Horses, [and] Excellent Livery” (Wood 73)."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"New windows, lighting, heating and ventilation systems installed, and classrooms for the then 220 students would all be 700 square feet and renovated."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"… so that he could take pictures with more natural light. A typical picture, like the Hatch portrait of the little girls, was elaborately printed in…"

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"… with car headlights from shore providing the lighting and student musicians providing music from a nearby ship."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… (Washington House) and one of Bath's few traffic lights. Washington Street has become world-famous for its variety of 19th century architecture…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… led to installation of Bath’s first traffic light at the intersection of Washington and Centre Streets in 1938."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"A light would come on, and the caller would say to whom he wanted to talk. Everybody listened to everyone else's conversations on those early "party…"

Museum at Portland Head

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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"When the electric light first came in, small bulbs hung in the schoolrooms from long ropes. These made for better lighting, but its quality was still…"

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

"He enlisted in Battery 2, 1st Maine Light Artillery, on November 11, 1861. He re-enlisted in December, 1863, and was promoted to Corporal in 1865."