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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"Measuring Rock The Measuring Rock Story In 1776, at the encouragement of Thomas Wilson, Stephen Titcomb and four other residents of Topsham, Maine…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Places

"… Brick Inn Farmington's First Grist Mill Franklin County Agricultural Fair Lowell's General Store Measuring Rock Meeting House Park North Church"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering

"… Historical Society With strict conservation measures the lobster industry has remained healthy along the Maine coast from Kittery north including…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Index

"… Railroad - Agriculture, Places Maps - Main Page Measuring Rock - Brief History, Places Meeting House Park - Places North Church - Places People -…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"Carroll’s A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842 provides the best top-down view of border-formation in…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s

"Workmen with knowledge of ship measurement requirements would harvest lumber and oversee its transport back to Thomaston."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gravenstein apple, Bangor, 1866

"… & his brother & Nath Harlow Esq Sept 8th I drew & measured the tree, it was 6 ft 2 inches high and 5 feet 1/2 inch to the lower branches."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… to each grant by vote of the town, yet another measure that they lacked the legal authority to do."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods Citations

"4, 2010). “World’s Deadliest Floods as Measured by Death Toll.” n.d. http:/// www.epicdisasters.com/index.php/site/comments/... (accessed Mar."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"Williams in October of 1862, measures 4.5 linear feet and 16 bound volumes. Joseph was given the records by his father Reuel Williams to be deposited…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… fire occurred in 1919 and required extensive measures to extinguish. Waldo Street Area Waldo Street Fire slide show The Waldo Street Fire…"

Historic Hallowell - Blizzards in Hallowell

"Some areas of snow measured fifteen feet in depth. The wind made it very difficult to see and some drifts were up to eight feet high."

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"… features of the area.” With his oft-present measuring wheel Avery explored the route. Avery and companions on Hunt Trail X Steve Clark, past…"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"… service in 1923 with the Bureau of Weights and Measures in Washington, DC thus beginning service to her country that lasted 40 years."

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"… declaring it "inexpedient to adopt any further measures in regard to separation" and the movement would remain—for now—at a standstill.[27] [24]…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"Measuring Rock Located on Rt. 2Farmington Historical Society According to accounts written by both Ben and Natalie Butler in their book, The Falls…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"There were even measuring parties where the community got together and measured the height of the children in a traditional manner."

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec Citations

"4, 2010). “World’s Deadliest Floods as Measured by Death Toll.” n.d. http:/// www.epicdisasters.com/index.php/site/comments/... (accessed Mar."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… in 1776, lacking a “chain”, the tool used to measure land, staked out property lines using basswood bark, The “men measured off six parcels of…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Overview

"… would be revisited over the next few months to measure what students were taking away from their research and exposure to Downtown Bath."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… the taking of egg-bearing females, a conservation measure already practiced by many Maine lobstermen, and in 1874 the first laws regulating the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… a minimum legal size, 3 ¼ inches carapace-length measured from the eye socket to the beginning of the tail."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"Most of the pines measured about a yard across and one hundred feet high and grew so close to each other there was no room for limbs to sprout for…"