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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… the fact that it has been the shire town of the county of Franklin for almost half a century, none will deny that such a town has a history, and…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times

"… Academy which came from John Hampden’s home county of Buck’s which is “Vestigia nulla retrorsum”—No footsteps backward."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Incorporation

"… to have the most distinctive last name in any county in England. According to a biography of Hampden (Hansord-Miller 1976) he “was reviled as a…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… not the first town incorporated in the Penobscot County area it was the first to be inhabited by white settlers migrating primarily from southern…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"X In 1932, part of the original Belcher Homestead became the site of the original Mallett School, and later the new Mallett School built in 2011."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… the branch of Nortons that came to the Franklin County area lived on Martha’s Vineyard. Each generation left its mark on the towns where they lived."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Julia Harris May poetry collection, 1903

"… Other Poems, is subtitled "A souvenir of Franklin County." It celebrates local persons and places including Farmington Normal School, Mount Abram…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading sugar beets, Aroostook County, ca. 1975

"Loading sugar beets, Aroostook County, ca. 1975 Contributed by Oakfield Historical Society Description Sugar beets being loaded from a…"

Maine State Archives

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"… School Pirates boys’ team won the Piscataquis County championship coached by Phil Clark. PCHS also offered a baseball team."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Birds Eye mobil combine, Aroostook County, ca. 1960

"Birds Eye mobil combine, Aroostook County, ca. 1960 Contributed by Oakfield Historical Society Description A Birdseye mobil combine for…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"… by the State's teachers. The teachers of Franklin County passed a resolution at their convention in 1857, that said: Resolved : That the interests…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"The Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the county where any relatives resided had the ability to assess and apportion sums for the support of the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 2 of 3

"My mother and father did have sweet potatoes, but they were the size of a twelve year-old’s fist. It was normal to eat only lunch and dinner in…"

Maine Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"The Androscoggin (later Maine Central) railroad crossed the Sandy River in 1870 to the train depot on Front St."

Guilford, Maine - RESOURCES

"… Piscataquis River Festival Lilac Capital of Maine Chicadee Capital of Maine Friends of COMMUNITY FITNESS Villages of Piscataquis County HOME"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… citizens of this corporation but by the town and county, and the business and traveling public generally, and we hope it will be decided at that…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"Lapham, Press of the Maine Farmer, Boston, MA. 1890; Hugh J. Chisholm’s Magic Town, 1882-1912, by Peter McKenna (Master’s Thesis); The Oxford Story…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"The date of the first Guilford Fair is uncertain but appears to have been some time in the late 1800’s."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… to more jobs than any other town in Piscataquis County. Saw Logs Over the Dam, Guilford, ca. 1880Guilford Historical Society As the new…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"The Gazetteer of Maine, 1882 reported: “The tide power privilege available at North Lubec is equaled by very few on the entire coast."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"The price for the land which would become Dixfield was: 2,895 pounds, 11 shillings and 5 pence, plus expenses incurred of 136 pounds, 12 shillings…"