Keywords: Engine 2
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- Site Pages (59)
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Site Pages
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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House
"On the map, the buildings on the property were an engine house and two other houses that were owned by J."
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion
"Frank Blaisdell, a landscape and civil engineer, designed this and several other amusement parks, including Riverton in Portland."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties
"… needed to produce the steel for the ships and engines, and Bath emerged as the only Maine shipbuilding center to successfully make the transition…"
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Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century
"… Bridge opened in 1931, this marvel of engineering provided a much easier mode of transportation at a time when more and more “people from away”…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones
"… a message to Bangor for them to send a fire engine because the town of Lincoln was in extreme danger of being engulfed in flames."
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Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years
"… railroad, the town had 29 businesses, 2 churches, 2 physicians, 1 dentist, 1 lawyer, 2 undertakers, and 1 newspaper; the Guilford Citizen."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village
"About 11 o’clock AM, an engine and a platform car loaded with sleepers (ties) came across. Quite a crowd of men, women and children collected on the…"
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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit
"… that the village of Lincoln was on fire and an engine was wanted from this city… the whole village was in danger of burning if help was not…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould
"The engines and passenger cars were sold to collectors and the track lanes are now snowmobile trails."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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