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Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines

"… becomes a tropical depression again and is moving East South East at 9 MPH with 35 MPH winds. Tropical depression Edna dies out off the coast of…"

Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place

"… piece written for the December 2004 issue of Down East magazine entitled “The Chosen Place”: Hallowell is a beautiful town in which to walk around."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Site Resources

"Camden, Me.: Down East Books, 1985. Print Haskell, Robert L. Yankee warrior: the story of a Civil War hero from Maine."

Historic Hallowell - Day 5

"Well more than 400,000 people, from Down East Maine were still without power on Monday day four. The skiing and snowmobile trails were destroyed by…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History Bibliography

""A Bay State Exodus" Page 62 Wormser, Baron. “The Chosen Place.” Down East-The Magazine of Maine, December 2004."

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

"“Oasis of Wilderness.” Down East, September 1995 Lamson-Scribner, F. “Grasses of a Salt Marsh.” Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture."

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"… and the usually placid waters of Gardner’s Lake, east of Machias in far Washington County. They gathered from Ridge, Split Hill, McCurdy, and…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"Chase Granite Quarry, East Blue Hill, ca. 1895Blue Hill Historical Society The Granite Industry. Running east along the northern edge of Blue Hill…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"… us down to ugh Capetown and there was a hotel down there down where the hospitals first to get to actually get to walk."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"… ICE STORM OF 1998 In 1998 an ice storm hit the East Coast and covered it with an icy coating. The trees, cars, houses and body’s of water covered…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… past than that of Summer Street, bordered on the east by the Penobscot River and on the west by the Main Road (Rout 1A)."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"They were Dixfield Common or Center, East Dixfield, and Dixfield Village. Upon its incorporation on June 21, 1803, these three sections grew into…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village Schools

"New Central High School, East New Portland, 1963New Portland Historical Society The original Central High School was located in East New Portland…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Area Historical Society The highest waterfall east of Niagara One of the world’s only moontide springs Mines that once produced some of the…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"East North Yarmouth At a distance of 2 1/2 miles from Walnut Hill Village, North Yarmouth's Old Town House stands on the west side of Route 9."

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"The Mattanawcook Observer. Vol. 1. Enfield: Down East Enterprises, 1983. Print. Fellows, Dana W. History of the Town of Lincoln."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The Stearns Lumber Company in East Hampden employed many Hampden men. From its modest beginnings in Brewer in 1836, the Stearns mill became one of…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"9 East Rumford, No. 12 Red Hill, and No. 13 Isthmus. Stephens High School State Champions, Rumford, 1913Greater Rumford Area Historical Society…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… Ellis River on the west, the Swift River on the east, and the Concord River on the south. These rivers provided the opportunities for small mills…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… of sorts, for three villages: the North, the East, and the West. The three villages are distinct from the other, but are connected by a strong and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Summary: The Future: Recycle or Start from Scratch?

"… View of Asticou Way and Peabody Drive Looking East ca. 1975Northeast Harbor Library Today, in the early 21st century, we exist in an era of mass…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… building a primitive log cabin structure near the East side of Harbor Brook where it outlets into the ocean."

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… York, Boston, North Yarmouth, Salem, Portland, East Port, Witheren Falmouth, Fowler Salisbury, Perkins Boston, Cape Ann, Thomaston, and…"

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"… 26, 1952, an act of the Maine Legislature renamed East Peak on Bigelow Mountain as Myron Avery Peak."