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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"These early blackboards were made of pine and coated with a mixture of egg whites and carbon from charred potatoes."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"The Scarborough anchorage at Pine Point is where the Scarborough, Nonesuch and Libby Rivers converge and the departure point for many fishermen."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… Bayley and Don Googins Local Fishermen at Pine Point, Scarborough, 1932Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Scarborough’s coastline, with…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"Most of the pines measured about a yard across and one hundred feet high and grew so close to each other there was no room for limbs to sprout for…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"Snow’s Pine Point factory canned its last batch of chopped clams in 1990 after 68 years in business."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"the same day, the station was moved to the Pine Point side of the tracks.(2) When the Pine Point station was discontinued, it was again moved to…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… three extensive beaches: Higgins, Scarborough and Pine Point. There are ledges, however, around Prouts Neck, Bluff and Stratton Islands (now part…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"The Village of Cockell: An Illustrated History of Pine Point, Maine. Wilmington, MA: Hampshire Press, 1988. Fogg, John D."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"… stretch of beach from the easterly tip of Pine Point through Old Orchard Beach to Hill’s Beach in Biddeford was often used."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… Historical Society and Charlene Fenlason Pine Point Road, Scarborough, ca. 1907Scarborough Historical Society & Museum The first “roads” were…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"He was a station agent first at Pine Point and later at Oak Hill. Because he felt it was his duty to care for his invalid mother, it wasn’t until he…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"Miss Pine Point, Scarborough, 1938Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Various types of boats have been used by lobstermen through the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"… themselves as being from Dunstan, Oak Hill, Pine Point or other neighborhood until the 1990s. Rapid development started in the 1970s, as people…"

Tate House Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"Emery, was largely a pine-and-paint building, modest but not without bucolic charm. The theater held about 620 and entertained the wealthy and the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"By the 1860’s, much of the big pine in the region had been cut, and many of the American-born loggers moved west, where the trees were bigger and the…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Later, after the American Revolution, the cutting, sawing and transporting of enormous amounts of both pine and spruce boards began."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"Maine's white pine, an ideal wood with many uses was used for masts for ships, lobster traps, and lumber for houses."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"DeFord, Deborah. Maine, the Pine Tree State. World Almanac Library, 2003. Frazier, Thomas B. "Stephen King." Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… “…maple, birch, beach, (sic) ash, elm, basswood, pine, hemlock, fir, spruce, cedar with some oak on the highlands and hackmetack on the lowlands.”…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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