Maine Memory Network

Friends of Wood Island Light

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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Living at the Lighthouse Not an easy life those early days, roadless dense forest isolating the early lightkeepers from the small farming population…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… boiling its fine oil to sell to watchmakers and lighthouse keepers. Wabanakis harvested their own fish and sea mammals, but lard and flour usually…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… then “Longue Island Plantation” and then “Long Island.” In 1789, this island and the adjacent islands including Seven Hundred Acre, Job’s and Lime…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"After the war he settled on Allan’s Island (Treat’s Island) where he operated a trading post. Louis Delesdernier was eventually appointed the first…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… on its side, the bottom rammed firmly against the wood piling. The Canadians scrambled onto the trestle, never getting their feet wet."

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… critical to the top-secret operation was the high wood and barbed wire fence with its “No Admittance” signs that surrounded the facility."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… villages.” (Ghere, 513) Wood Island and lighthouse, Biddeford Pool, ca. 1915McArthur Public Library Their doom was just over the horizon…"

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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