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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… on the porch of his cottage at the popular summer resort of Nahant, Massachusetts. By the time the Philadelphia photographer Frederick Langenheim…"

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

"Summers were spent living alone and winters with relatives in New Hampshire. In 1961, Litchfield celebrated his 90th birthday at his niece’s home in…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… of Ryder’s Cove and Hewes Point, the Dark Harbor summer people valued a more natural, rugged summer experience, including walking on the stone…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures cont'd

"This was a time when the young people on the island got to meet people from the other sides of the island."

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… its waters, canoeing to the headwaters each summer, and living in villages farther up river each winter."

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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Summer - In the summer the Abenakis would travel to the coast to clam, fish, and collect seafood. They would sometimes have big seafood feasts, where…"

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Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… relieved when the family arrived the following summer. The next significant event that occurred in this area we call Skowhegan was the great…"

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"For several summers in the mid-2000s, a team of student archeologists under the guidance of professors Rob Sanford and Nate Hamilton from the…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"changed shifts. The Carlton Bridge continued to carry train traffic. Today, that train traffic includes summer tourists who ride the Maine Eastern…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"The ice would stay there until summer. When summer came, workers would take the ice down south by ship where they could use it to keep things cold…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… With images from the Patten Free Library Summer Street, Bath, ca. 1907.Patten Free Library The Columbian Block, at 168 through 194 Front…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"… Library The Patten Free Library, located at 33 Summer Street in Bath, Maine, is architecturally unique."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Overview

"Over the summer, the team met a number of times to begin planning this extensive project that would eventually involve approximately 60 seventh…"

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

"Relatively open passenger cars were used during summer months, and closed cars were used during the remaining months."

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

"Gannett, to buy their newspapers in the summer of 1921. Gannett consolidated the two papers as the Portland Press Herald."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"… for cattle and sheep and used the marsh for summer pasture. Many settlers were often assigned a marsh lot (or lots) for grazing their animals…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"… even with winter homes "in town" and then summer cottages out at the Pool or towards Kennebunkport."

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

"Summer residents of Pine Point objected to crossing the double tracks, so the station was moved. Men and heavy equipment arrived about 9:00 A.M."

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

"… A post rider could ride 30 miles on a clear summer day; but in stormy winter or foggy spring weather, he could ride only a few miles a day."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - General Henry Knox Museum

"Each summer the museum offers a two-week summer teacher institute free of charge to history educators, encouraged and advised by Pulitzer…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"He was a stock holder that worked in New York and he took a shine to my father. It was 1929- sometime in the summer- and he said to my father, “I…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Fires - 1849 to 1924

"Prison Fires - 1849 to 1924 In the summer and fall of 1849, due to severe changes of weather, the inmates suffered much sickness and mortality from…"

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Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"… pulpwood logs, which were floated downstream all summer long. Skowhegan Island X However, the heavy logging use clogged the river and took a…"

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"… plow and to assist in clearing the land the next summer. A 30' x 40' stable was built behind the Capitol, and an apple orchard was established just…"