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Keywords: Early contact and settlement

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Battleship filling with coal at Lamoine Coaling Station, ca. 1910

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

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Workers, woodsmen, guides, Norcross, ca. 1900

Norcross Heritage Trust

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"… holdings; the documentation of a critical time of contact between Indigenous people and European settlers; the role each collection plays in…"

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Letter to Sarah Tarbox from her mother, 1838

Westport Island History Committee

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Acadian Archives

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Kennebec Purchase Deed, October 27, 1661

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… information about early land dealings; early contact, interactions, and diplomatic relationships with Wabanaki people; Massachusetts colonial…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… poorly Maine's native peoples faired after contact with Europeans, only the southwestern tribes would disappear altogether--driven from their…"