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Maine State Museum

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Seashore Trolley Museum

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Rumford Area Historical Society

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… to raise and support the surveying teams in their field efforts were extreme and more than four boxes of the Barclay Collection includes financial…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… 1812, Civil War and WWI took the men out of the fields, leaving farm hands in short supply. Agriculture During World War I World War I began in…"

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… and built for the house to the north along Rye Field Lane, and the house moved onto the foundation, insulated and sided."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"Ice harvesters had to say goodbye to their ice fields when they were flooded. Also the harvesters ice shacks were taken by the wind and down the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"X Text by Karyn Field The early settlers were very concerned about education. School was first held in private homes, with the teachers “boarded…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"But when we got on to the field, sights that will hardly bear description met our eyes. Turn which way we would, nearly a dozen grim corpses lay…"

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"The fields in front of Tucker’s Farm were bustling with visiting farmers and their animals from throughout Hancock County."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"… the railroad lines were either woods, towns, or fields. Train Depot, Guilford , ca. 1896Guilford Historical Society On December 14, 1869, the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

"74-77. Print. "Roaring Lions to Be Heard at Lincoln Field Day." Various Articles, White Binder. Lincoln Historical Society, Lincoln, 1932. Print."

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

"… that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field representing a new Constellation." Now, our flag consists of thirteen horizontal stripes…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… on a large scale: large farms and mowing fields, great piles of mussel-bed, with large barns and hay crops And...there were often three or four…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… Swan’s Island fishermen became experts in their field. "From 1874 to 1889 Swan’s Island fishing vessels took either the first or second place every…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… and determination whether it was on the football field, basketball court, or the baseball diamond. Despite being competitive in all their sports…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… public’s opinion of women pursuing in the medical field was mixed. But she still pursued her dreams and inspired many others."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… establishes Bay of Fundy Right Whale Research Field Station in Lubec Water Street, Lubec, ca. 1935Lubec Memorial Library 1990 • R.J."

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"Newspapers throughout New England had a field day exposing the fraud. The August 1, 1898 edition of The Boston Herald reported, “Never did a…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"Pendleton & Company. Captain Fields Seeley Pendleton (1870-1923) lived across the street from the store."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… River and from surface collections of plowed fields on the George Sawyer farm in Ashland. By the Late Archaic Period (6,500 – 3, 400 years ago)…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"oil storage facility near the ball fields. But bad news cohabitated with good news – it seemed nothing could discourage the machinery of progress."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"Athletic Field & Preble Farm, Guilford, 1925Guilford Historical Society The Guilford Fire Department was organized in 1893 and was comprised of 16…"