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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"One of the most photographed events at the convention was a lobster bake and buffet held at the hotel."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… were never found and the last time they were seen was off of the coast of Cape Cod at 7:10 P.M. Frances Grayson was 35 years old when she died."

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"When James Vickery died in 1997 at the age of eighty, he left his collection of early Maine images to his friend, Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr."

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

"… and for Other Purposes" (often shortened to the "Coasting Law") of 1789 was a critical aspect of the separation debate and deserves a brief…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Hudson Museum

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

"… Coast One of the last places on the Maine coast to be settled by the English was the Penobscot Bay region including what is now known as the town…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

"… established themselves along the Maine coast. As early as November 1652, inhabitants of Kittery swore their allegiance to the government of…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"… burden and inefficiency of travel under the Coasting Law of 1789. The pro-separation press rejoiced, with one editor writing that "a vessel may go…"

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…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"On the coast, commercial traders felt bound to Massachusetts because of otherwise inconvenient shipping laws, and a growing inland debate ensued over…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"… with squatter-proprietor tensions and the Coasting Law likely still fueling the sentiments of the two voter bodies.[25] Despite the vote's failure…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Works Cited

"Orono: The University Press, 1941. Hampden Historical Society. Historical Sketches of the Town of Hampden, Maine."

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… Road Heading north and east from Boston along the coast of Maine, a shore road known as King's Highway was established in 1653."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Earll, R. Edward, The Coast of Maine and its Fisheries, for the 1880 U.S. Fish Commission 1887. Ellis, Kathleen, Lignell, “In the Sardine Factory or…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… tribes in Maine were nomadic, traveling to the coast in the summer for fishing, stopping to plant crops in fertile lands along the way."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"The mysterious shipwreck of The Don, off the coast of Harpswell, on June 29, 1941, took the lives of 34 men and women from the…"

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…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… families who came to spend long summers on the coast of Maine. Rusticators started arriving in the late 1800’s."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"The population of colonial America was doubling with each generation. The French and Indian wars were winding down."

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

""The decrease of population along the coast of Maine," Geographical Review 2 (1916): 334-41. Smith, David C., et al."

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast: Blue Hill and Penobscot Bays, 1982. —(LI) O’Leary, W.M. Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry…"

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

"… to be, especially since this section of the Maine coast is very rocky, and more dangerous than down in Massachusetts or even in southern Maine."