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Site Pages
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Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson
"… as a skilled designer of houses, schools, churches, public buildings, and commercial blocks."
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"… diaries, depositions, account books, church records, lists of settlers, minutes of proprietors’ meetings and boundary commissions—all offer insight…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"Christ Church (1893) was built in Dark Harbor by Episcopalian summer residents. St. Mary’s of the Isles (1901) was built for the Catholic summer help…"
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Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island
"Mills, bridges, churches, fire stations, and other significant structures have been just a few of the figures that have changed, and played a large…"
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village
"Free Will Baptist Church X The Free Will Baptist Church was built in 1837. The first pastor was John Leman, who preached to his congregation for…"
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Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911
"However these streets, atop the hill, do not all meet at a common junction. The otherwise unidentified photo below was taken at Church and Main, and…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry
"… was used for movies and dances and meetings and church services. In 1905, Lewis Whitten held the record for hauling the largest load (11 tons) of…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club
"… playing, running errands, skiing to school and to church. Henry Anderson, New Sweden, ca. 1935New Sweden Historical Society Every pair of…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm
"… was used for movies and dances and meetings and church services. Work Cited: www.geocities.com/mscguide/sthis.html, Maine Swedish Colony, 5/24/06…"
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"… except for the tongue, which was given to the church as a favored delicacy. Soon after, the British and the Dutch began whaling."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood
"He was active in the Unitarian Church with his wife, Isabel. And he and Isabel were staunch supporters of the Grange."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson
"… become an ordained minister in the Congregational church. He took his obligations and opportunities seriously and did well in his studies."
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Guilford, Maine - PROJECT OVERVIEW - Page 1 of 2
"… Annual Harvest Fair at the United Methodist Church to seek input from the townspeople for exhibits."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 4 of 4
"… Yarmouth, and the growth of our schools from church schools to one-room schoolhouses to community schools and finally to our joint Maine School…"
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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3
"… granite Merchants Exchange, and the Second Parish Church have long vanished, but their images remain in this set of pictures."
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Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs
"… men received seventy-five commissions for houses, churches, schools, business blocks, and factories."
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Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas
"… (1922-23) and the Chestnut Street Methodist Church Community House (1924), both in Portland. He excelled in using the style to create imposing…"
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Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows
"… devout Christian Scientist, he designed the First Church of Christ Scientist in Auburn. From 1978 until his death in 1999, Gridley Barrows devoted…"
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Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings
"Barnabas’s Episcopal Church in Rumford of 1904 and the Hannaford Brothers Warehouse of 1919-20 in Portland."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication
"In August 1855, the painter Frederick Church, who had already come to the island several times, accompanied the Charles Tracy family for a stay in…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4
"… [among them the first congregational and baptist churches in blue hill] and other public buildings, 15 barns and sheds, 10 stern mouldings and…"
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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"… area, each maintaining its own school houses, churches, and graveyards. Main Street and bridge, Surry, 1912Surry Historical Society Probably…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers
"… the riverbank, behind what is now the Nazarene Church (once Blake Memorial Congregational Church) in the Farmington Falls Village."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History
"… Reverend Nicholas Loring, second pastor of the “Church Under the Ledge” near the coast (at the corner of Gilman Road and Route 88 in present day…"