Keywords: Deer Island
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Site Pages
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication
"In 1857 the Rockland's Captain, Charles Deering, added Bar Harbor to his stops. The next year he opened the Deering House, Bar Harbor's second hotel."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment
"… variety of aboriginal trinkets, skins of seal and deer, baskets of birch-bark, moccasins, bead-work, snow-shows, gulls’ breasts, stuffed birds…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters
"Will warrant that good deer hunting be found.” One man who answered Joe’s ad was William Lyman Underwood, grandson to William Underwood who…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses
"… was received stopped at the postoffice either at Deer Isle or Mount Desert and was brought to this island when a sail boat chanced to visit those…"
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"Small, a Deer Isle man who served as a doctor on Swan’s Island between the years 1891 and 1903, points out in his island history that the name…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII
"As population grew, the volume of mail increased and more post offices were built. By 1870, Swan’s Island had a population of 570 and was listed for…"
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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…"
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"J.G. Deering was eventually renamed J.G. Deering & Son Company once Joseph G. Deering’s son Frank Cutter Deering joined the business."
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"… modern-day Eastport, Maine) to go to the US, while loyalist homesteads on Deer, Campobello and Grand Manan led them to be recognized as British."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY
"X Wildlife abounds, and includes deer, fox, and all manner of fish, shorebirds, and waterfowl. The soil is rich and supports farming even today."
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"They planted beans, corn, and squash and hunted deer and other wild game as well. Occasionally they warred with other tribes along their frontiers…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake
"Visiting the island in Porter Lake is also fun. There is rope swing there. Porter Lake is one of the most popular public places in Strong."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 1 of 3
"… from the coastal towns of Surry and Swan’s Island in July, 2011, and January, 2012, at the Maine Historical Society in Portland."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2
"… wins and four losses and ultimately lost to Deering in the Western Maine Quarterfinals at the Portland Expo."
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"… as well as the close proximity to Campobello and Deer Islands made the work of customs officials difficult indeed."
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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area
"From deep wood teepees they would track deer, caribou, moose, and bear. They would use a bow and arrow to catch the animals in a snow drift."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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