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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"About Us Grindle Point Lighthouse X TEAM ISLESBORO’S PROCESS From the start, Islesboro stressed student participation and community involvement."

Blue Hill, Maine - Welcome to the town of Blue Hill!

"Welcome to the town of Blue Hill!   Blue Hill Bay, ca. 1910 To view our video welcome message, click on the image above: At “the head of the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"Just as multiple rivers converge in Casco Bay and Merrymeeting Bay, so multiple communities converge in Wabanaki kinship networks."

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… to be settled by the English was the Penobscot Bay region including what is now known as the town of Blue Hill."

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 3 of 3

"… Brown & McAllister Granite Quarry, Blue Hill Bay, ca. 1890Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. However, the largest industry on the island was granite…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"… Failed Colonies Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, ca. 1800Maine Historical Society Initially, however, the primary legacy of these efforts…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Meet Blue Hill's Project Team

"The Bay School . The mission of The Bay School, rooted in the Waldorf tradition, is to provide students from Kindergarten through 8th grade an…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… town, the charm of its situation, its sparkling bay, its inlets, its shores, its landscapes of hill, dale and plain…” The same qualities began to…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"In Blue Hill Bay there still sits an island called Long Island that was once a thriving community but now is void of anyone."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… "downeast" from the Boston colony to a sheltering bay at the foot of the blue hill. Armed with a grant issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Clough, Annie. Head of the Bay, 1953 (reprinted 2006). .---(SORL); (SHIP) (JF) Clements, Robert. Parker Point Homes - A Parker Point Scrapbook, 1983."

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"View of Pleasant Street and Blue Hill Bay, ca. 1850Blue Hill Public Library Sailing vessels were built in Blue Hill as early as 1792, but it was in…"

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… County Fair Collaboratively written by The Bay School's eighth grade: Noah Cimeno, Aphelion Crampton, Alexander Heilner, Loriman Looke, Finn…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… eight and nine merged into the "head of the bay district" in 1848. Like other schoolhouses, in the earlier years the school had had a wide age…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"For example, in 1604, Passamaquoddy Bay was the site of one of the first French overwintering settlements in the Americas under an expedition led by…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"… to purchase land and fisheries on Merrymeeting Bay but also reaffirmed the rights they retained: Nothing in this deed [should] be construed to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"A handful of land schemes in Passamaquoddy Bay sprang up under the jurisdiction of Nova Scotia in the late 1760s and 1770s, but they were small, and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… end of the border (a survey of Passamaquoddy Bay by John Mitchell) and in the west (treaties with the Chenussio and Seneca, both Haudenosaunee, or…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"… streams, and harbors flowing into Passamaquoddy Bay as, possibly, the Saint Croix. This lack of consensus highlighted a fundamental truth about the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"… Wabanaki sagamores to land around Merrymeeting Bay, the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers. The eight original Pejepscot Proprietors quickly founded…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"… Wabanaki places, such as Quabecook (Merrymeeting Bay), and the names of falls on the Androscoggin, including Amitgonpontekok (Twenty Miles Falls)…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"… loggers, and others converged on Passamaquoddy Bay but disagreed over where Maine ended and New Brunswick began."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… called the Waldo Patent) to the west of Penobscot Bay. For these proprietors and others like them who spearheaded smaller schemes, landownership…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"… support from Québec and Acadia—the Massachusetts Bay colony claimed jurisdiction over the region. The New Englanders’ ambitions to dominate the…"