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Baxter State Park

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Acadia National Park

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Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"Riverside Park was not unlike other amusement parks and resorts of the period. Landscape and civil engineer Frank Blaisdell drew up the plans for the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"A round trip ticket to the park, from the Main Road just over 2 tenths of a mile, cost 10 cents and included free admission."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards

"A round trip ticket to the park, from the Main Road just over 2 tenths of a mile, cost 10 cents and included free admission."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times

"However, as time passed and places like Riverside Park that offered social opportunities closed, people looked to other towns and cities for…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - State Street Theater

"It is now used as a parking lot for Maine Public Service employees. Sources: Graves III, Richard A. Forgotten Times A Walk Through History."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"Ten years after the fire, an article in the Franklin Chronicle stated, “The beautiful common in our village –that should be the pride of ALL our…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Riverside Park and Arboretum

"Years later, the skating rink moved onto land now part of Riverside Park and served by a warming hut that is now the support building."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Works Cited

"Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine. New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1909. Thompson, Deborah."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"The state championship was moved to the Augusta Civic Center after 2005. So a “congratulations” goes out to the boys and girls basketball teams at…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - About Us

"… between the Maine Historical Society and Maine State Library, is an innovative program that promotes collaboration between local schools…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Members of Hampden’s Grange are proud to state that it was the first in Maine. Another first is the piano that General Crosby is said to have brought…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"The church records state that Crosby was involved in many issues concerning the church. Days of “humiliation, fasting and prayer” were often…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"… became the first preparatory instructor in the state. However, for reasons that have remained unclear, the arrangement was never carried out and…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"Bob's Bears X The Day the Bears Bathed in Hampden by Bob Hawes Listen to Bob Hawes read the story..."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - War of 1812

"War of 1812 Text by Karyn Field There is no doubt that by the time of the Battle of Hampden, September 3, 1814, the British were already familiar…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"Early Settlement Wheeler and Crosby Text by Karyn Field Crosby's Grist Mill Store, called Old Brick Store, Hampden, built in 1807Hampden…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Incorporation

"Incorporation Wheeler’s Mills or Souadabscook Plantation or Wheelersborough or Olive and finally Hampden Settlers called the township Souadabscook…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"Summer Street X Text by a Reeds Brook Middle School student Walking Tour of Historic Summer Street No neighborhood is more reminiscent of…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"Buttons The Ragman Text by a Reeds Brook Middle School student as told by Alice Hawes A horse and wagon are at your door."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"… Introduction Text by Karyn Field with images from the Hampden Historical Society and the Penobscot Marine Museum Upper Corner businesses…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"At first it was named Maplewood Park and was privately-owned. It was called Maplewood Park because of the Maplewood Hotel and its maple trees which…"