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Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… Gas and Electric company, and the New England Ship Building Company. Galen C. Moses was born August 30, 1835 and died on Monday, April 19, 1915."

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"1940Islesboro Historical Society SInce arriving in the 18th century, Islesboro's early settlers depended on privately owned boats for transportation…"

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Maine's Road to Statehood - Turn of the Century to the War of 1812

"… during the 1790s, and between 1794 and 1807 the shipping industry tripled. Perhaps most importantly, however, was the founding of 55 additional…"

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Map of the Inhabited Part of Maine, Moses Greenleaf, 1829

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"… Massachusetts because of otherwise inconvenient shipping laws, and a growing inland debate ensued over tension between land proprietors and…"

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Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… You Like It, and many others were put on in the early years. For 16 summers the Surry Theater thrilled audiences of 300 with a taste of Broadway on…"

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Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"According to the census reports from the early 19th century, Phebe’s brothers were fishermen and farmers."

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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… Legend has it this spirit was alive and well early in the 17th century, when potential settlers first sailed up the pretty little bay searching…"

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Scholar's Report Book cover, Surry, 1937 - 1938

Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

"This was especially true in the early 1940s as evidenced by the following records of Surry students: 1940 Sylvia Whitney, Valedictorian;1942, George…"

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Opera Company's Tenth Anniversary festival schedule, Surry, 1994

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… During the rest of the 1980s and into the early 1990s the SOC continued to tour, performing many times in both the USSR and Japan and throughout…"

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"An address to the inhabitants of the District of Maine upon the subject of their separation," Portland, 1791

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"With this plan, shipping complications from the Coasting Law would be sidestepped because Maine would still boarder all of the same states as before…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… years, specializing in groceries, hardware and ship chandler's supplies. In Dark Harbor, Williams Brothers operated a large grocery store featuring…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"All thirty-nine ships in the American fleet were either captured, burned or scuttled. The Penobscot Expedition, as it came to be known, remained the…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 7 of 17

"… ice, this industry was international and products shipped all the way to India and Sri Lanka. The Laconia Mills were one of the earliest…"

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Ice cutting on the Saco River, Biddeford-Saco, 1908

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 3 of 17

"Ice harvesting was not only a local, state or national trade, ice was shipped all over the world as far as South America, India and China."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"… ago, Wabanakis spotted the first European sailing ships cruising along their seacoast. The Wabanaki or Dawnland People* had lived in Maine for…"