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Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley R.R., Presque Isle, ca. 1939
"Car #52 now is at Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport. Reproduction of an earlier postcard. View additional information about this item on the…"
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Lincoln, Maine - View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913
"The identity of the lady driving the car is unknown but the car may be a Maxwell. This picture postcard was taken between 1913 and 1922, before…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4
"Some time after Portland became electrified in the 1880s, the horse cars were converted to electrics or “trolleys.” By the early 1900s, electricity…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry
"… Row for their workers’ families, a stable and two barns. By 1902 they had 150 men working with a daily output of 50,000 shingles and 15,000 other…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm
"… for their workers' families, a stable and two barns. In 1902 the company had 150 workers working with a daily output of fifty thousand shingles and…"
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Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3
"He was then taken to a nearby barn and died three days later. Switcher Engine #22, Guilford, ca."
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Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill
"Mary Martin stepped forward and offered a barn that had been recently built on her property. The offer was gratefully accepted."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2
"… in the larger section that was like a one-story barn. Bickford built five more lobster boats between 1937 and 1945."
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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms
"Gordon walk out behind the barn to his car. Keith noticed a white sheet of paper out of the corner of his eye. “Hey Pa, Mr."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4
"… in blue hill] and other public buildings, 15 barns and sheds, 10 stern mouldings and heads, 230 coffins and 5 stores….” Fishing."
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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"… fields, great piles of mussel-bed, with large barns and hay crops And...there were often three or four vessels on the stocks building at one time…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"… meeting on Islesboro took place in 1791, in the barn of Joseph Boardman. These worshipers were Baptists, who built the first house of worship on…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War
"… June 11, 1939 Big House Little House Back House Barn. Thomas C. Hubka, University Press of New England, 1984 Eastern Argus, May 31-June 3, 1861…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"When the original Congregational Church was torn down in 1831 services were held in the new barn here at the invitation of the owner, Captain Enos…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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