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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"He was responsible for the upkeep of the Wells-Brunswick road and helped transport soldiers to the Brunswick fort."

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… the war, about 175 remaining settlers left the fort and went back to their farms, and the garrison at the fort was discontinued by 1762."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"He was the Surveyor of the King's Woods in the 1750s. Moses was a colonel in the Revolutionary army and fought at Bunker hill and in New York."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"… the governorship of the Surveyor of the King’s Woods, David Dunbar. While the idea of a separate colony quickly lost favor and was rejected by…"

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

"Soon Fort Pownall was constructed at a place called Wasaumkeag (the seal place) in what is today Fort Point in Stockton Springs."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… and the eastern border’s terminus at Lake of the Woods (the intersection of modern-day Ontario, Minnesota, and Manitoba) were negotiated with…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… to carry their grain several miles down-river to Fort Pownal to have it ground. Although it took several years for the settlement to be…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… out across the battlefield and barged on a fort, the principal one at Williamsburg. But when we got to it, just as we expected to have shower of…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… century lime kilns were operating near the old Fort Wharf, located at the base of Knox Street, near where the Knox mansion had stood."

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… River from Prospect to Buckport, just upriver of Fort Knox. Otherwise they had to travel all the way to Bangor and down US Route 1A to Surry."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"Often the regiments spent their time building forts and roads. As told in the letter, a corduroy road--a road of parallel logs packed with sand and…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"This route also included Presque Isle. Gould traveled to his customers’ sites by cart and horse. The trip from Old Town to Fort Kent would take five…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Fort Pownall now guarded the entrance to the Penobscot Valley; stalwart and hardy settlers began to settle where the two rivers met."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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