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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Publication in Progress

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Publication History

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Publication in Progress

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Publication History

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Publication in Progress

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Publication History

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Publication in Progress

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Publication History

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Publication in Progress

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Publication History

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"… came, workers would take the ice down south by ship where they could use it to keep things cold, so produce, meats, and dairy goods would stay…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"… of the chandlery was to sell equipment for ships, such as rope, windlasses, anchors, and canvas."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Henry and Seth Clark were in the shipping business and operated a shipyard on Clark Point in Southwest Harbor."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… drugstore could be found in the late 1800s and early 1900s. For Bath, this was the Swett Drugs business among many other drugstores."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"… 1926Maine Maritime Museum In the late 19th and early 20th century, theaters were becoming a new and exciting thing in most towns."

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"… owned the building from its construction in the early 1850s until 1882, as noted in several tax records."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"… the “Great Fire of 1837” decimated most of the early records thought to be safely in storage. The Old City Hall was a brick, two and a half story…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"… Captain William Patten was part of the important, ship building Patten family. These people are important because their businesses lasted so long…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"… from Bath Independent 1919 copy noted that the early businesses included a barber shop and The Lincoln National Bank."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"(N, C) National archives project. Ships registers and enrollments of Saco, Maine, 1791-1915. Rockland, Me.: The National Archives Project, 1942."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"… onto boats in the deep water of Somes Sound and shipped to cities along the Atlantic Coast.Mount Desert Island Historical Society Eventually…"

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"Ship's Caulking Tool KitDavistown Museum Early shipbuilding in Hallowell was quite different from modern shipbuilding today because of the tools…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

"It began in the early 17th century, when scattered, yet permanent, fishing settlements established themselves along the Maine coast."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"So they built their own ships. There was plenty of timber on the island -- enough, in fact, for them to ship that, too."