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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"At home some worked on Liberty ships at the shipyard in South Portland. Frances Libbey, a Scarborough teacher, wrote to local servicemen and…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Caring For Our Families and Friends

"Town reports from the early 20th century record payment of care for those that boarded the sick and infirmed, transported to the mainland those who…"

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

"… Dodger's "boys of summer" the late 1970s and early 1980s on Swan's Island were the "golden years" for the Swan's Island softball team."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Odd Fellows Hall

"… that became popular on Swan's Island in the early 1900s. The Odd Fellows met in Epworth Hall, across from the current Methodist Church, until the…"

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

"1940Swan's Island Historical Society During the early 1900s the population in each separate village grew and so did the number of stores."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Redmen's Hall

"… that became popular on Swan's Island in the early 1900s. Redmen’s Hall was a two-story building constructed around 1905 in Swan’s Island village…"

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

"Cattle and sheep were brought to the island at an early date. Community members raised their own farm animals."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"Early fishing schooner, ca. 1870Swan's Island Historical Society With the best timber harvested, men turned to the sea for their livelihood rather…"

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

"Islanders caught lobsters as early as the homesteading times, but most of the lobsters caught were to keep food on their tables."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders At Play

"… the Odd Fellows Hall for three nights usually in early August. Sweet Chariot musicians on a windjammer, Swan's Island, ca."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… but a truck and fire station were acquired in the early 1950s. Police first came to the island on a temporary basis, with a deputy sheriff in the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"Josiah was also involved in shipping in Newburyport with his cousin Jacob Little. Josiah served as a representative to the Massachusetts General…"

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

"… version of a defining problem in the history of early Maine: conflicts sown by vague boundaries drawn on paper in faraway rooms."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"… political economy, empires, and borderlands in early North America. He is the author of Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary…"

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

"… records include extensive information about early land dealings; early contact, interactions, and diplomatic relationships with Wabanaki people…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"… economic activities, in short, undergirded both Wabanaki society and White New England colonists’ investment in and settlement of early Maine."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"… by Nova Scotia and Massachusetts in the early 1760s had produced contradictory results, and maps of the area—when they even managed to accurately…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"… in the mid 1730s, and Samuel Goodwin, an early clerk for the Kennebec Proprietors, not only organized meetings, but also took the lead in company…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"… the Wabanaki people who remained to interpret early documents and the placenames they contained. One striking example is the testimony of Pial Pôl."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… White New Englanders invested in and settled in early Maine, they mobilized kinship ties that structured colonial business and investing practices."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"… and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. Cambridge, United Kindgom: Cambridge University Press, 2019."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"… border commissions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was one of jurisdictional confusion and uncertainty."

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

"… and maps in the Barclay Collection from the early 1820s. David Thompson's Diary of Astronomical Observations, 1817Maine Historical Society…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"He served as an early Moderator for the Kennebec Proprietors as well as Clerk of Common Pleas for the Port of Plymouth, Justice of Peace for…"