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Site Pages
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Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2
"… players may have caused the fire in the hay barn, perhaps from a carelessly discarded cigarette."
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"… The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn Harbor Cottage at Asticou Northeast Harbor Maine ca."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born
"He feared the barn risked being tinder for the entire neighborhood had the hay inside ignited. The structure was therefore moved northwestward around…"
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Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?
"Once the timber was cut and the house and barn built, was there anything of value left? The economy of early non-native settlers was built on the…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes
"… going to church “looked like a bird-of-paradise in a barn-yard.” From Bar Harbor Days, by Mrs. Burton Harrison, 1887. Continue to Big Thunder"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates
"… almost anywhere there was a space big enough -- a barn, a warehouse, or a boat house -- it was likely someone had hammered a basketball hoop to the…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell
"… Louise "Mame" Savage (1910-1997), while the big barn, several other properties, including Hilltop House, and about 30 acres of vacant land in…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings
"… Buildings The Old House, Harbor Cottage, The Big Barn and the Old Ell were not the only structures in Asticou to move, expand, or morph into new…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…
"… staves, and shingles needed for boats, dwellings, barns, fences, and barrels. They cut hay in the salt marshes and turned ancient forest trails…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond
"Houses, barns, workshops, garages and sheds in Asticou were routinely moved, split up, and expanded as needed to suit the occupants, giving true…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Fiske Block, Broad Street, Bangor, 1864
"… that, "Saturday night may 12 1866 John Womans' Barn was set on fire E H Tebbets horse shed and 4 stores commencing at I W Pattens and running north…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)
"Later, around 1883, the barn and shed were demolished and the Old House was swung around and relocated westward to make room for the first Asticou…"
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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company
"However, a peek inside Walter Nowick’s “concert barn” on a Sunday evening in August during the 1990s would have revealed Mainers, Russians, and…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900
"… school houses, three mills, 163 houses, and 151 barns. The Colony Expands Into Neighboring Townships The town of Westmanland (just west of New…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4
"… of Dow’s farm; Dunstan, near the Dunstan trolley barn; and Bryants, the Scarborough-Saco town line. Trolleys carried both passengers and freight."
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Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay
"… 1929, the Surry Theater Company first opened the barn doors of the Surry Playhouse to the summer theater-going public of coastal Hancock County."
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Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property
"(Surry tax records, 1878). In the old barn there were nameplates marking the inhabitants of the old stalls: Bessy, MaryAnne, Bossy."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2
"… in the larger section that was like a one-story barn. Bickford built five more lobster boats between 1937 and 1945."
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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2
"… between the two buildings, is a large carriage barn. This was later the home of Attorney John P. White."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2
"… the island such as clam cove, ringbolt, and barn run. Sagamore Wreck of the Sagamore, January 14, 1934Scarborough Historical Society & Museum…"
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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"… fields, great piles of mussel-bed, with large barns and hay crops And...there were often three or four vessels on the stocks building at one time…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3
"… and hauled my load up to the hill beyond Babcocks barn when his steers swung and broke my sled tongue."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3
"Barn raisings were the first social events, consisting of fiddle playing, dancing, and plenty of good food."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"When the original Congregational Church was torn down in 1831 services were held in the new barn here at the invitation of the owner, Captain Enos…"