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Site Pages
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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Wiscasset's Arctic Connection
"… Blethen Maine Newspapers Explorer, scientist, author and teacher Donald B. MacMillan liked Wiscasset, a community of about 1,200 on the Sheepscot…"
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Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection
"… as Maine Photography: A History 1840-2015, co-authored by Shettleworth, Libby Bischof and Susan Danly (2015). As of 2019, Earle Shettleworth, Jr."
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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3
"… the compiler of collections of hymns, and the author of a vesper service. After the death of his brother Henry in 1882, Samuel retired from the…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century
"… had all submitted to Massachusetts authority.[1] As the population of the infant territory increased and altered over the next century, its…"
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Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement
"Somewhat surprisingly, the legislature authorized the vote, which was approved by Massachusetts Governor Samuel Adams."
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Maine's Road to Statehood - Turn of the Century to the War of 1812
"Further, Maine had more influence at the federal level if it remained a district of Massachusetts. The paper emphasized that “if any other attentions…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Mary Ellen Chase
"Mary Ellen Chase Mary Ellen Chase, author of Silas Crockett, ca. 1935Maine Historical Society Mary Ellen Chase, the granddaughter of a sea…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4
"… Elizabeth West Poland and Marilyn West Curtis; A Poem, “Pennacook Falls” by Tom Fallon, with permission by author, copyright 2007 TC Fallon."
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Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail
"Soon after Avery’s untimely death on July 26, 1952, an act of the Maine Legislature renamed East Peak on Bigelow Mountain as Myron Avery Peak."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill
"… "felt it to be the duty imposed upon them by the author of their being to establish, foster, and perpetuate an institution, in the interest of…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5
"… Dix (for whom Dixfield is named) of Boston, was authorized to build the first grist mill, the first saw mills and develop the water power that…"
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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax
"Sources Bangs, Carrie, “Klondike: The Gold from Sea Water Story Promoted by the Electrolytic Marine Salts Company at North Lubec, Maine”, Lubec…"
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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"According to John Gilman, the author of the business history of the canneries, 1952 was the year the key cans were introduced."
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"… settlers from long ago—fighting both Federal authority over their lands (although the state, like the local settlers, would not be there but for…"
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"Women in Colonial Economies About the Author Sara T. Damiano, Ph.D. is a historian of women and gender in early America and the Atlantic World."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4
"This plant, authorized in 1930, had room for four boilers, with the first two units going on line in Jan. 1931."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"He was the author of the majority of company pamphlets and official communications. Gershom Flagg (1705-1771) Gershom Flagg was half share owner in…"
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"He is the author of "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (2019). Coll. 60, vol."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4
"She campaigned zealously and successfully to raise funds that resulted in the attractive brick library building on the corner of Main Street and…"
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"… the Wabanakis—who had only conditionally authorized English traders to operate in the area, destroyed the trading posts and drove away the small…"
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"… to be made before provincial officials, imperial authorities, Indigenous powers, and the colonial public, and to be cobbled together from grants…"