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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5

"Over the years it was used as a store, church, parsonage, meeting house, home, and even a working farm! STUDENT CORNER HOME"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… the concert and a large gathering of ladies in evening gowns and their escorts provided a scene of beauty to the audience seated in the balcony."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"From Rome she also sent stories to the Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia. The poem entitled “Rock Me to Sleep,” whose opening lines, “Backward…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Mills and Homes in Stockholm

"Most had an attic and some even had a basement. Many homes in town were also farms. There was a big barn down town that was used for the work horses."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"One fine evening during a concert, a group of “Young Americans”, who seem to think the occasion to “run riot over the Common, yelling lustily”."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"No one took the state up on its offer. The state even tried giving land to a railroad company, but that plan also failed."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… been tough to do that when the tressle wasn't even built until September 1870, when the first train came across the river with materials for the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… following winter of 1817 was bitter cold, testing even the most hearty of folks. The history books say the cold weather was most likely caused by…"

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

"A new school was built in 1954, at the site of the current town office. Islanders have fond memories and horror stories of school life before and…"

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"The loggers used poles, booms and even dynamite to break up the log jam. One of the biggest jams in history was on the Kennebec in early March, 1896…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times

"… its own economically with its neighbor Bangor, even having the larger population. However, beginning in the 1840s Bangor gained dominance."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"Even though Martin wrote much of the book in 1864, he frequently returned to various topics and wrote updates or pasted in newspaper clippings…"

Skowhegan Community History - Early Settlement in Skowhegan

"… boys waited, trappers came and visited and some even stayed overnight. Once a trapper wanted company and someone to help him trap."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"… and probably not more than a half dozen people even knew about it, but the picture of those bears has remained a sharp image in my mind for lots of…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Incorporation

"… and hero according to personal prejudice, and even today, more than three centuries after his death from wounds received at the battle of…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Some would even dig in the clam beds with the infants. Newborn babies would be diapered in absorbing spagnum, moss, cattail or milkweed fluff, and…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"Patrons could then indulge in a matinee or evening performance of “corking good vaudeville,” as one ad put it, all nationally-known acts contracted…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"The salmon and brook trout are occasionally stocked to make fishing even more popular. See Maine Fish Species Return to Student Research"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 1: 1885-1899, Katahdin Iron Works, Silver Lake Hotel

"Even though the name of the company changed over the years as business waxed and waned, the area remained known as "Katahdin Iron Works." The large…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"… their memory perhaps in a distant county when even a person picture would suffice to give them great happiness in the absence of persons or things…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… find a community of a different nature, where even strangers wave to each other as they cross paths on the roads."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"This school master taught alternately ¼ of the time at Black Point and then at Dunstan. In 1735 the town hired another school master, Robert Bailey."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"A steamboat even docked at Steamboat Wharf on Contention Cove. Started in 1839, the village shipyard was located at the present day town landing."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel

"It would be so calm and nice, you know. And even sometimes you could hear them coming from the Sheriff (the island), that’s out behind the lighthouse."