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Site Pages
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Sports
"Swan's Island softball team, 1958Swan's Island Historical Society Swan's Island softball team, ca."
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history
"… marriage license, Swan's Island, 1910Swan's Island Historical Society One family story involves Laura Turner, an island girl who married Dana…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII
"Spurling's Store, Swan's Island, ca. 1925Swan's Island Historical Society Island stores received regular supplies from the mainland, and as many as…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born
"The interior of the main house has been greatly improved. It now contains, on the first floor, a handsome reception hall, a library, and a parlor or…"
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"… Harbor’s economy was not immune from the Great depression. Numerous hotels closed and only three remained open by 1940."
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"The island switchboard was located in the rear of the Dark Harbor Post Office from 1902 to c. 1915. The switchboard moved to a small house on…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools
"District Number Two was located on the southern part of the island, called Dark Harbor School. Number Three was the Creek School located near Mill…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries
"Several island ladies have shown great skill in making quilts with intricate designs and patterns. Each year the annual quilt show brings island…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements
"… then “Longue Island Plantation” and then “Long Island.” In 1789, this island and the adjacent islands including Seven Hundred Acre, Job’s and Lime…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"In 1738 Georgetown was enlarged by the addition of Parkers Island (the current Georgetown), Phippsburg, Woolwich and the area now known as Bath and…"
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"Croix Island) and Robert Pagan deposition. This relied on information shared by Passamaquoddy knowledge keepers."
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"Watts focused his attention on Arrowsic Island and the improvement and fortification of the land. He died in 1717 in Maine."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House
"… also granite from the same quarry at Mussel Ridge Islands in Penobscot Bay. The architectural style of the 2.5 story building is Italianate."
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"… suffering as a result of rivalries between the Great Proprietors (as the speculators became known after the American Revolution) over vague…"
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"… of Paris was written in 1783 ending the War with Great Britain which recognized the United States. After the Revolutionary War dignitaries visited…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820."
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"… Bay, in which “Blind Joan” appeared along with “Great Agumagus” or Moxus, a Kennebec River leader, and Sheepscot John, a Wabanaki leader on the…"
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"… state government itself began to compete with the great proprietors. From the 1780s into the early nineteenth century, it sold millions of acres to…"
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"… requires grappling with the vast legacy of the great land companies like the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors."
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"Alan Taylor, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Chapel Hill: University of North…"
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"Exploring survey, St. Croix River to Great Waggansis, 1817Maine Historical Society Growing border tension and violence from 1827 to 1841, especially…"
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"Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820."
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"… Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Chapel Hill…"
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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3
"Home of John Moreland Cummings, Richmond's Island, ca. 1855Maine Historical Society An ambrotype of Richmond’s Island in Cape Elizabeth shows the…"