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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… as funds allowed, usually about eight weeks in spring and eight in winter -- four months in all. Kids began at age six or seven, and it was common…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… canoes, in which he will take parties to several Islands in the bay and around Mount Desert Island. Carrying sporting parties to places where…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"Finally, in Spring 2011, Sam and his spouse Jennifer Judd-McGee and two children embarked on a major expansion of the Old Ell by adding a new…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"The island harbors were shaped by fishing, with boat building, cooper’s shops, processing plants, and chandleries."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"Spring Cleaning at Hilltop House, Asticou, Northeast Harbor Maine, 1933Northeast Harbor Library The Big Barn, Asticou Way, Northeast Harbor…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"The island switchboard was located in the rear of the Dark Harbor Post Office from 1902 to c. 1915. The switchboard moved to a small house on…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3

"Spring built bridges connecting the Island to Biddeford and Pepperellborough 1795-8. Captain Bradbury built a fulling mill on Spring's Island for the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 8 of 17

"Deering in 1866 on Spring Island in Biddeford near Bradbury Dam. J.G. Deering was eventually renamed J.G. Deering & Son Company once Joseph G."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… Native America and Indigenous Studies, 1.1 (Spring 2014), 49-64. Carroll, Francis M. A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American…"

Surry by the Bay - Resources

"… 1998 Cushman Lane, Surry Historical Society, Spring 1995 INTERNET Fort Knox.maineguide.com/history of Penobscot.html…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… European settlement at Blue Hill began in the spring of 1762 when Joseph Wood and John Roundy sailed "downeast" from the Boston colony to a…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"… the lake from all sides, as well as natural springs. The shoreline is now heavily developed with family camps, cottages and homes."

Abbe Museum

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

"Work began and by the next spring Harold was back fishing from the Cappy. In a later diary entry, Queenie commented on the Cappy being repaired."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"… was caused by ice jams at Swan Island and Browns Island but with the warming temperatures in the late winter, early spring, the winter ice on the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… place) in what is today Fort Point in Stockton Springs. The entire region was quickly taken with a force of 4 companies of 100 men each, who were…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… and Swift Rivers often flooded in early spring. According to the writing of Anna Virgin Farrington, Indians from the Pennacook tribe had a camp on…"

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

"… a craft of 40 or 50 tons which was hauled in the spring of 1843. Wilson's MillPrince Memorial Library Mills Sawmills in existence in 1904…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"They arrived in the spring with three teenage boys and 20 head of cattle. They built a small cabin on an island that had been cleared by the Abenakis."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Each season they carried out different rituals. Spring - They would use tree bark that was peeled from trees to make containers, wigwam sheathing…"

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

"… of the concrete deck was scheduled later in the spring. The temporary trestles have been removed, transforming the long-held vision of vaulting the…"

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…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… in 1969, with the first class graduating in the Spring of 1970. Prior to that date, high school students in Rumford attended Stephens High School."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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