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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"With the introduction of the Portland Herald, Senator Hale and his Daily Press began to feel pressure from their lower advertising revenues."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"The west line, also a part of the south line of New Portland, is the county line between Franklin and Somerset counties."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"Col. F. B. Morse who lived on the South road, came forward with the idea of a suspension or wire bridge."

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… I forget the loving kindness I received there.” A South Portland resident writing in 1964 went even further."

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"… (1922), the Fidelity Trust Company Bank in South Portland (1928), the Canal Bank in Portland (1930), and the Fidelity Trust Company Bank in…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"For Western Maine, well-known Deering High of South Portland; for Eastern Maine, the Hampden Academy boys, a team that had yet to win a state…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"And the Normal School would be the catalyst for improved education in the public sector. Farmington is a proud community – proud of their downtown…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… Dirigo Ice Company, and shipped to cities in the south to help aid in refrigeration. Although travel on the Penobscot River remained important to…"

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

"The train traveled from Portland stopping at stations in Scarborough and other towns on its way to South Berwick where it connected with the Boston &…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… by Miss Evelyn Randlett, who was Islesboro High School's valedictorian that year. The new boat began running on June 27, 1936 but it quickly became…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"In the heyday of the trolley, one could travel south as far as Philadelphia or north to Bangor and beyond using connecting lines."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… the travel to reach the depots from the north and south without difficulty. Oct. 6, 1870: Upon the completion of the Railroad Bridge to this…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"Beginning in the 1860s, the Portland Railroad Company operated horse-drawn cars on rails that ran through Scarborough and other area towns."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"The quarry on South Street was opened to supply stone for the Western Division Railroad built in 1872."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Serving the high school students of Cumberland and North Yarmouth, the Greely Institute building with its distinctive belltower was built in 1868…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"In 2008 the West Peru Elementary School was closed and a new elementary school, entitled Dirigo Elementary, was built to house students in grades…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"established in Lubec • First Lubec High School class graduates (1897) 1900s 1900 • Census results – 3,005 1902 • Lubec Water & Electric District…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"The north-south length of the downtown is easily traversed in a 15-minute walk southward along Front Street from the Patten Free Library to the…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… an art teacher at the Rumford/Mountain Valley High School for 37 years. Currently the New Pennacook Arts Center, with rotating exhibits in the Tech…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… owned a ferry business that went from Portland to South Portland until 1896. He was even in the silver and coal mining business in Maine."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… competitive sports teams and, in 1965, the Lubec High School Marching Band traveled to Washington D.C."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Doughty School; and Priscilla Soucie, School Library Media Specialist, William S. Cohen School Howard House, Bangor, 1869Bangor Public Library…"