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Site Pages
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4
"Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" Sources Dunstan River X Acts and Resolves of the Legislature of Maine."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Educator Resources
"Educator Resources X Resources and activities for educators that are tied to the following exhibits: Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass"…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Historical Society
"Scarborough Historical Society (L to R) Bruce Thurlow, Mary Pickard and Flo Maguire, Scarborough Historical Society Representatives X Bruce…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway Text by Bruce Thurlow Images from Scarborough Historical Society and Charlene Fenlason Pine Point Road…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarbrough Middle School
"Scarbrough Middle School Jessica Kelly (L) and Middle School students X Jessica Kelly, Gifted and Talented Educational Services (GATES) teacher…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4
"A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time Extra Curricular Danielle, grade 6 Scarborough High School Track Team, 1921Scarborough Historical…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4
"A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time The school system in Scarborough has seen many changes over the past 352 years."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Explore the Exhibits
"Explore the Exhibits We invite you to learn more about Scarborough's rich history through these interactive exhibits."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3
"Money could be used for medical, burial and housing expenses, and for food and household necessities."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School
"… School as a child when it was still new and housed grades K-12, spoke to the gathering, recalling how the building, with it's spacious gym, had…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3
"… President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, both of whom were Masons, assumed the chair."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic
"… and funds were used for medical, burial, and housing expenses. Along with purchases for food and household goods, loans were given to help out the…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong
"… care of his sheep in a pasture far from the Libby house. He claimed that he took an unusual route to the pasture."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4
"Most houses had a well, but as the village grew, residents formed the Strong Water District in 1908, laying a water line from nearby Day Mountain…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4
"If the doctor was available for house calls, Ella would phone to determine who was ill. She would then compile a list for the doctor to pick up at…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War
"In 1870 they lived in a boarding house in Lewiston, and he worked in a mill. By 1880 they returned to the area to live in Strong."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4
"Fishing was from early on an important pursuit in Blue Hill. A packet of receipts and share certificates in the archives of the Blue Hill Historical…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 2 of 3
"… sheep on Long Island a the time of the Civil War; and fishing as there were dozens of weirs (pronounced locally as 'wares') around the shore."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"… and the resulting international trade in fish, furs and lumber led to the boom period of 19th-century wooden shipbuilding."
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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2
"… the Perkins-Witherle House in Castine, the McCobb House of 1806 in Phippsburg (now the Spite House in Rockport), and the Bourne House of 1825 in…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4
"Fish packing plants in South Blue Hill canned clams, mackerel, and herring. Local men fished through the ice for smelt in the winter, packing them…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Pendleton & Ross stand, Bangor, 1864
"… filled with dry goods groceries Rum hard ware fish salt &c." He noted that in November 1865, the building was raised five or six feet above the…"
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Historic Hallowell - A Bay State Exodus
"… had wrought worsening scarcities of land, hay, fish, lumber, timber and firewood in Southern New England’s old towns." A better life beckoned in…"