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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"Penobscot Chief Joseph Orono X The Penobscot and, to a lesser extent, Passamaquoddy were known visitors to Swan’s Island."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"Chief Joseph Orono powder horn, ca. 1780Abbe Museum European colonization of Wabanaki Country began in the early 1600s."

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Abbe Museum

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Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… from Bucksport to Milford with a branch line to Orono. It was supposed to meet up with the Bangor Old Town and Milford Railroad."