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"Pepperell Mills boarding houses, Biddeford, ca. 1875McArthur Public Library The "China Trade", started in 1852, was integral to the success."
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Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners
"… part by the National Historical Records Advisory Board (NHPRC), focused on the working drawings from John Calvin Stevens, Frederick A."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce
"Schools were kept open as long as funds allowed, usually about eight weeks in spring and eight in winter -- four months in all."
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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones
"In the first few years of the switch board being here, there were six subscribers, John MacGregor, Dr. L.H."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans
"… addition to the age old spear and atlatl throwing board and dart. Fired ceramic pots, possibly an outgrowth of earlier soapstone bowls, appear in…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4
"… from the establishment of the Maine State Board of Agriculture in 1856 and the University of Maine in 1865."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Old Church on the Hill
"… in the form of a hollow umbrella-shaped sounding-board suspended above his head by a well carved hand and arm let down from the ceiling, as if from…"
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Sanford-Springvale Historical Society
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Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden
"The Mooseleuk Club voted at board meetings to which charities they would donate part of the horse’s winnings."
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Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor
"In Bangor she was a teacher, principal, school board member, and then superintendent for eleven years."
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Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 1 of 2
"Sister Annunciata served as board chair of the Maine Hospital Association from 1951 to 1953. Aside from her professional attributes, Sister…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2
"… was not yet in place; visitors still boarded in private homes and arrived by water. Travel around the island was by water or rickety “buckboard”…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4
"His son had attended Yale in the Arts and Harvard Law School and had been brought up in a pulp and paper family."
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Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence
"… founding committee evolved into a more formal Board of Trustees. By 1993, 22 women with 28 children had resided at the Portland location."
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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax
"… at the new plant that it was difficult to find boarding space in town. Over 700 laborers were involved in the construction."
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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…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians
"… Academy, a small independent college preparatory boarding and day school for boys and girls in grades six through high school."
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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3
"… Everett Barnard, both carrying transits, boarded the flat bottom boat with some Canadian workers to cross the choppy waters towards the Lubec…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"… Main Street Bath and the City of Bath Planning Board deserve special mention for their significant contributions."
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Colby College Special Collections
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