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- Site Pages (372)
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Site Pages
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"These primary resources provide essential context for important contemporary topics such as Indigenous land and water rights; and the preservation…"
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"Effective agents needed a familiarity with the law, as the proprietors frequently resorted to filing suits of ejectment or trespass against residents."
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"The fifth volume is an account of one of his particular passions: dancing, and especially of the Dancing Fraternity of Bangor."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"The included collections were selected because of their historical significance to what is currently Maine, New England, and the United States; the…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty
"Bringing entertainment to the community and bringing business to Bath and surrounding areas were two of the most important."
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"… women, who possessed limited access to formal political and economic power, and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources."
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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations
"And, it’s a time when the state and local governments were wrestling with what to do about the poor people in their midst and whose responsibility it…"
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"The final treaty process was led by US Secretary of State Daniel Webster and his British counterpart Lord Ashburton, himself a former land speculator…"
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"At the same time, marriage law differently shaped men’s and women’s abilities to own and control land."
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"… women, who possessed limited access to formal political and economic power, and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources."
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"… gardening and farming, transportation, education, politics, dance and music, religion, the Civil War era, Irish in Bangor, family life, medicine…"
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"… testimony, and future commissions on the political fate of the islands in the bay would similarly focus on the correct interpretations of…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"He was well versed in business, politics, writing, and science. He was the author of the majority of company pamphlets and official communications."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Use policies and agreements
"Use policies and agreements Please click on this link to read the policies for use of the materials on this site: MMN Policies and Agreements X…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington
"X Out of all of these historical objects, people, and buildings, only the church remains. It is now painted chocolate brown, and is used as a…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House
"Bath was home to many theaters that came and went as the city and its residents changed. These included the Music Hall, Uptown Theater, Columbia…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block
"Even today, there are clues to the past: The A.G. Page on the door step, the A. Hallet's Drug Store clock, and the words Thompson's Corner right on…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Hampden, Upper and Lower corners, 1835
"… an account of his activities as a dance student and dance master for his wife and children, so they would know more about his life and activities."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Primary and intermediate school, Bangor, 1865
"Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper, and his wife, Clara Cary Martin, had six children. Their daughter, Annie, he noted, graduated from the…"
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"They chronicle efforts to draw, dispute, and dispel borders in pursuit of a wide array of dreams for the Dawnland and for early Maine."
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"… with Wabanaki people; Massachusetts colonial governance; and, international relations, land speculation and Revolution‐era land bounties."
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"Such schemes garnered fierce opposition from Bostonian proprietors and the colonial government they largely controlled."
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"… legal title to “unappropriated” land, the state government itself began to compete with the great proprietors."
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"For Wabanaki Nations, the Federal government is surely a better bet than the State, but it is no less beholden by its own sense of superiority and…"