Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 84-107

"… begins this section with newspaper clippings concerning how much Republican states contributed to the federal budget from 1866 to 1878, as compared…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Culture

"… gathering space for citizens with common cultural concerns, and it was considered to be the repository of items of historic significance."

Ski Museum of Maine

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Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… Cure Co., a large mail order patent-medicine concern. The largest single employer, established after the Civil War, was the granite industry."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 2 of 4

"As far as sports were concerned, there was only softball after school between the kids that wanted to play."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 3 of 4

"These concerned individuals and groups continue to be successful stewards in assuring that the Scarborough Marsh will remain a highly productive…"

Alfred Historical Committee

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Portland Water District

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Maine Department of Transportation

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"… Society The island's growing popularity raised concern, mainly among summer people, about over-development."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"… which the name “Pejepscot” is derived); material concerning the voyage of George Weymouth; documents about murdered French Jesuit missionary Father…"

Historic Hallowell - This won't hurt a bit!

"… was met with more than a little skepticism and concern in Britain. James Gillray, a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"A carriage-making concern was a mainstay of the local economy for all of the 19th century. When the granite industry moved into full production…"

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"If the ship owners were really concerned about safety, they would put paddles on the lifeboats. One of the most important things of a ship was people."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"… and it would be in the best interest of all concerned if the bears bathed somewhere else. So the animals were reeled in and put in their respective…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - U.S. Flagship Hartford

"One of our main concerns is controlling trade to and form Thomaston along the Eastern coast of the US."

Fryeburg Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering

"… remains among the Swan's Island fishermen, a concern to keep the balance between a strong livelihood and not over fishing the lobster population."

Westbrook Historical Society

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Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 1 of 3

"… their social, economic, and environmental concerns. Clothes transmit a wide range of information."

Blake Library Special Collections, UMFK

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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… and Specialty Company, a Saginaw Michigan concern that processed and sold mint flavored toothpicks, in order to be nearer a large source of white…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"… fifty-one articles to be voted on at the meeting concerned roads.(1) Roads in more populated areas had been tarred, but more rural roads had yet to…"

United Society of Shakers

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