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Grist and saw mills on the Upper Falls, Rumford, ca. 1895

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"Sources: The Continental Paper Bag Company press, 1905 H. Schedler Photo Engraving, New York Kiesling Bros. Press, New York"

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Conrad Heyer, Waldoboro, ca. 1852

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2

"In his twenties, Heyer joined the Continental Army, serving for a year before being discharged in December, 1777."

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Longfellow National Historic Site, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990

NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Coll. 61, vol. 4, p. 349

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"Underpaid Continental veterans and indebted farmers from southern New England flocked northward, believing land was the just entitlement of their…"

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Rufus King of Scarborough, ca. 1820

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"In 1778, he served in the Continental Army in the Rhode Island campaign as aide-de-camp to General John Sullivan."

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St. John River Boundary survey, 1843-1844

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… Thompson (1770-1857), famous today for his trans-continental journeys and voyage down the Columbia River to the Pacific in 1811, has correspondence…"

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Jonathan Keyes Log Cabin, Rumford Corner, ca. 1900

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… Company; the Rumford Falls Sulphite Company; the Continental Paper Bag Company; and finally, the Oxford Paper Company."

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1794 map of Farmington

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… two key passes; the Marias Pass over the Continental Divide and the Stevens Pass in the Cascade Range that was named after him."

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Coal Kiln School, Scarborough, ca. 1900

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 4 of 4

"… the first American Flag. On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress passed the first Flag Act, shown here: "Resolved, that the flag of the United…"

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SEE NOTE Detail of USGS Topographical Map of Bath, 2000

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… crustal plate movements, river erosion and continental glaciation. After the north-south oriented bedrock underlying the parallel ridges and…"