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Western Maine Foothills Region - Our Partners
"… six historical societies, three RSU 10 teachers and their classes, one teacher from the Holy Savior School and her class, two libraries, a…"
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"… veteran, and his attempts at protecting the Sandy River; and Polin, in his attempts at protecting the Presumpscot River, both through diplomacy and…"
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"The content of this collection pre‐ and post‐dates the period of the company’s operation (1749‐1816)."
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"Just as the large manuscript collections of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors reveal dramatic conflict over land claims in the mid-coast region…"
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"The rich records about the creation of the border preserved here provide readers with the historical resources to reconsider how and why the border…"
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"… three million acres on both sides of the Kennebec River. In their squabbles with rival companies, they rejected what was by then a longstanding…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Exhibits
"Exhibits Welcome to our Exhibits page. Click the links below to enjoy stories from around the Western Foothills Region."
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"This reminds me of events detailed in Saxine’s Properties of Empire (2019) where the General Court in Boston sided with the Penobscots in the 1730s…"
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"… managed the daily provisioning of her household and supervised its labors, and performed vital work as a midwife, attending 816 births within 27…"
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"Amongst the region’s original inhabitants, the Wabanaki, men and women jointly provided for their society: generally men hunted game which women in…"
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"Involving extensive physical labor indoors and out-of-doors, women’s daily work included gardening, dairying, food preparation, spinning, weaving…"
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"Watts focused his attention on Arrowsic Island and the improvement and fortification of the land. He died in 1717 in Maine."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections
"… volunteers can continue to work on the remainder of the pages, and as they are approved the documents will be added to the transcription database."
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"Allan Greer, Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018)."
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"Bibliography and Further Reading Blaakman, Michael Albert. Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 1776-1803."
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"… helped to substantiate company land claims, and the roads, mills, and meetinghouses they built helped make the rest of the proprietors’ tracts more…"
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"… including the Bancroft Prize for American History and Diplomacy and the New England Society Book Award for Historical Nonfiction in 2019."
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"… subsist off the land and to produce for markets, and it would assure that they could pass that prosperity down to future generations."
