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Presque Isle: The Star City - Free Baptist Church, Presque Isle, 1895

"… corner of Second and State Streets, was built in 1881. source: "Art Work of Aroostook County, Maine," v. 8, W."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Transportation

"The New Brunswick Railway came to Presque Isle in 1881 followed by the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in 1894."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Canadian and Pacific Railroad

"In December of 1881, the C & P steamed into town for the first time. Sources: Presque Isle Historical Society."

Presque Isle: The Star City - State Street Baptist Church

"… Street Baptist Church was built on the site in 1881. A large attendance was expected in the new building. However, attendance was only 40 members."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 5 of 5

"… Records "The Early History of Dixfield Maine", DHS and Dixfield Bicentennial Committee, 1976 George J. Varney, "A Gazetteer of Maine", 1881"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"Russell, 57 Cornhill, Boston, MA., 1881; History of Rumford, Oxford County, Maine From Its First Settlement in 1779 to the Present Time, by William B."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"In 1881 the Mount Desert Herald reported: “Thirteen years ago the little steamer Rockland made one trip a week between Rockland and Millbridge…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"… to Caribou and then Presque Isle later in the 1881 opened more markets for the Aroostook potato."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"… and the Sons Of Union Veterans of the Civil War (1881). These three organizations along with the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"In 1881 a few families moved north from New Sweden and founded Stockholm, settling first on the high land just across the New Sweden line."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"… lots that were being cleared for farms began in 1881. Alfred Swenson and his wife Brita, daughter of Jons Sodergren, settled on Lot #2, the first…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"-Mount Desert Herald, July 1881 Stories of Wabanaki canoe feats abounded, such as the time Louis Mitchell paddled all the way around Mount Desert…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"… known as Wendall Institute, for 13 years until 1881. Thereafter they were convinced to move their school to Strong."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… who stayed at Rockaway House every summer from 1881 until her death at age 73 in 1895. Her letters, collected in Reminiscences and Letters of…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… of the old high school, Biddeford, Maine 1848-1881. Biddeford, Me.: s.n., 1935. (N, M) Massachusetts Historical Society.Collections of the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"Following two years in England (1881-1882), Homer returned to the United States and moved to his family’s estate at Prouts Neck, where the sea and…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"After 1881 she and her husband lived in Tuckahoe, New York. Later collections of her verse include Queen Catherine’s Rose which was published in…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"In 1881 three of the ten most successful boats of the New England fleet were from Swan's Island. Seine fishing (hand line fishing) was one form of…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"… (Bangor and Aroostook Railroad) was built in 1881. Because of the increase of population, railroad workers felt that Stockholm needed its own…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… & Harris Company were among its owners, until 1881 when it was sold to Piscataquis Woolen Company, owned by M.L. Hussey, H. Douglass, J."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"… by Merrill Brothers at Cumberland Junction in 1881. A few years later it was sold to William R. Wood, of Portland, who was proprietor in 1904 and…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The 1881 edition of Colby's Atlas – Hancock, County, Maine lists five Surry merchants and dealers selling dry and fancy goods, boots, crockery…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"Russell, 57 Cornhill, Boston, MA., 1881; History of Rumford, Oxford County, Maine From Its First Settlement in 1779 to the Present Time , by William…"