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Site Pages
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Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product
"Natural Resource to Finished Product Hallowell Granite Works stone yard, Hallowell, ca. 1895Hubbard Free Library A site between Winthrop…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School
"Abbott finished the “mountain” of sand that Jacob had started on the property, built bridges modeled after famous bridges throughout the world, added…"
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village Schools
"One of the schools was a primary, grammar, and high school at certain points in time. The other school, the Great Works school does not have any…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930
"… students from the Primary School up to the newly finished school for opening day. The following is a list of the first teachers: Mrs."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 2 of 2
"… team, as they started three sophomores, but still finished the regular season as the #1 seed in the Western Class A tournament."
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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5
"As the end of the 1960s approached, it became obvious that the current high school building was not going to meet the demands of the district because…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education
"The May School May School, Farmington, ca. 1870 This is the only known picture of the May School that exists in the Farmington area.Farmington…"
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland Community Library
"Various community members finished and painted the interior and donated carpeting and other materials."
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine
"The only school that has not burned is the current school on the High School land. In 1919 Stockholm decided to build a grade C high school."
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73
"… 23, 1870, however, Burleigh's work was not yet finished - only six of the 25 log houses had been built."
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Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years
"… Bennett’s shed until the first school house was finished in 1818, across the street from the current Guilford Valley Grange."
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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5
"When the construction was finished, the building had gone $750 over budget. Andrew Carnegie agreed to pay the $750 if the Town of Guilford agreed to…"
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Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 2 of 2
"Guilford Woolen Mill Finishing Room Crew, ca, 1890Guilford Historical Society STUDENT CORNER HOME"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Crew
"She finished her B.A. from the University of Maine at Orono in 2006. Candi has been active in the Swan's Island Educational Society since 2001 and…"
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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 3 of 3
"… operation, ruining tons of inventory other than finished goods, and damaging machinery and building alike as the water rose to levels of eight feet…"
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Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement
"Plenty of trees and finished lumber were available. The first sawmill was built on Union River in 1768, and soon after, sawmills appeared on Patten…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Tea Room
"They stayed from 1970 to 2000, when Steve finished working for the ferry service. According to Steve, the house was one of the first to be hooked up…"
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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3
"… Guilford of Maine Guilford Woolen Mill Finishing Room Crew, ca, 1890Guilford Historical Society In 1824, the first dam across the…"
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Guilford, Maine - Special Events
"When finished in 1904, a huge dedication ceremony took place in Bank Square that was attended by hundreds of people."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village
"… this rate the work is now progressing, it will be finished and the cars running over it by middle of September."
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Historic Hallowell - Train Wreck Poem
"… struck with fear Instead he said with a smile “We won’t be going there for a while” And with that we will diminish For this tale has to finish"
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Historic Hallowell - One of Many Monuments
"One of the four statues at the base (Law) weighs 21 tons. The finished monument is shown in the color postcard."
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Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal
"I'm staying here and I'm going to finish what I've started”. She said she understood, and to make sure to call often, and that she loved me."
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII
"The Great Depression finished off many industries on Swan’s Island, and ushered in a quiet period of change. Hard times hit the nation."