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Salmon Brook Historical Society

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"Summer Street X Text by a Reeds Brook Middle School student Walking Tour of Historic Summer Street No neighborhood is more reminiscent of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - State Street Theater

"State Street Theater Text by Kali and Brooke, students at Presque Isle Middle School Images from and the students X X The State Street…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… Harbor A TALE OF BOOM AND DECLINE Text by Brook Ewing Minner and Hannah Stevens, with additional research by Parker Brown Images from the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"… Black, Christie Duffy, Courtney McKinney, and Brook Mitchell 7th grade students at Bath Middle School With images from the Patten Free Library…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The MCHP Experience: In Our Own Words

"… having fun and interacting with the Renee, Brooke, Sally and Ray was wonderful." -Denise Doherty, Teacher Biddeford Historical Society Mr."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Brick Works

"Several projects that may have used those bricks were in the works: Charles Bulfinch, a prominent Boston architect and principal in the Broad Street…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"The brook which bears her name was once the water supply for the Town of Dixfield. The upper Weld Street area, which had very few houses until around…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell House

"The Federal Period architected building spanned eighty-four feet on Second Street, rose five stories high, stretched one-hundred and twenty-three…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Braden Theater

"… of Presque Isle, and Newell Smith and Charlie Brooks of Ashland. The theater was sold to James Reginald and Richard Bernard in May 1970."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… the surrounding woods, and playing in the brook in summer. The Flood of 1936, Ridlonville to Rumford bridgeMexico Historical Society After…"

Caribou Public Library

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - War of 1812

"… took place in the area surrounding Pitcher’s Brook, currently known as Reeds Brook. Shortly before the battle began, Captain Charles Morris of the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"… and Irish folks in the Spruce Street/Knox Street Penobscot Street areas had the Pettengill School."

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"Hamlet and Brooking. Plaster casts were applied to his broken limbs and he survived the ordeal. With so much destruction, many people would have…"

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"Seventeen years later, in 1920, Marston and Brooks Company, who produced shoes, moved in. Between 1903 and 1920, the O’Brien Electrophone Company…"

Lincoln, Maine - Carney's Store

"Pat Carney Interview on Carney's Store Brooke Lancaster "Compare and contrast your topic in the past and in the present" Carney’s Store was first…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"… History of Main Street in Northeast Harbor - Brook Minner, Hannah Stevens, Northeast Harbor Library & Tim Garrity, Mount Desert Historical Society…"

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"Van Wyck Brooks stated that in Rollo the reader beheld in all its phases the shaping of one of Daniel Webster’s “solid men.”...."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"… purchased his site at West Cumberland on the brook which is the outlet of Goose Pond around 1864, at which time it was occupied by an old grist…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"… could be found at Half Moon Pond, on local brooks and streams, and in special spots on the Swift River."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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

"After a series of fires in the village, Mr. Edwin Brooks offered to work with some summer residents and purchase fire fighting equipment if the town…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"… discussion relative to a bridge over Seven Mile Brook at this place. The reason this bridge thought of was so that the settlers on the North side…"