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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor Overseers seek reimbursementPrince Memorial Library Legal Settlement Maine law in 1821…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Exhibits

"… Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties Representative Industries…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"1896 The Diaries of Sarah Jane and Emma Ann Foster: A Year in Maine During the Civil War. Wayne E. Reilly, ed."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Records of The Second Social Library in North Yarmouth, 1817Prince Memorial Library First Social Library of Cumberland The Second social Library in…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"The MCHP grows out of the Maine Memory Network, the Maine Historical Society’s nationally recognized statewide digital museum."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"From 1730, the Church Under the Ledge in the coastal area, now Route 88 in Yarmouth, was the center of the community, providing both worship and town…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"By the time of the first US Census of 1790, the town’s population had almost doubled, to 1,905 persons."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 4 of 4

"Eliphalet Greely, born on Greely Road in Cumberland in 1784, was president of Casco National Bank for 33 years and mayor of Portland for ten years."

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

"… old saw mill which was owned and run by many of the farmers in the neighborhood, each running a certain length of time each season, or until a…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… 1794, a group of settlers petitioned the "Court of the General Sessions of the Peace" to construct a new county road that went south from the New…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"In the 1830s, Samuel and Amasa Sweetser were grafting trees and developing new strains of apples. Their son Frederick was an early member of the…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Cumberland's Prince Memorial Library : Evolution of a Community Institution

"The land was the site of the home of Benjamin Sweetser prior to its destruction in a 1906 fire. Prince Memorial Library, Cumberland, ca."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 14 of 17

"In the 1861-62 Annual Report, the Overseer of the Poor stated that 873 people were assisted either on or off the farm, and a second house had to be…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"In the 1861-62 Annual Report, the Overseer of the Poor stated that 873 people were assisted either on or off the farm, and a second house had to be…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"The decade of the 1820s was one of the climatically benign periods, raising expectations among farmers and prompting the introduction of new cash…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"The Semmes converted the farm from a dairy farm to a riding school where all five family members, Carl, Abby, Sally, Donald, and Richard, were…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"Here are some materials on the history of the towns of Cumberland and North Yarmouth: Bennett, Thomas C."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Welcome

"… the stories of our towns’ past while broadening the amount of material available on the World Wide Web. X We welcome your input."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"In March of 1869, veteran Jacob Lunt wrote to the Overseers of the Poor, “Mr Hamor, sir, I want you to send me a little bread if possible, or I don’t…"