Keywords: Home improvements
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Site Pages
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4
"The Ladies Public Improvement Society, an organization that got its start as a suffragette group, was and still is a focus of community life in South…"
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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company
"… many attempting to learn the Cyrillic alphabet to improve their pronunciation and grasp of the language they were singing in."
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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations
"… done in the name of the greater good and social improvement. Click here to read the State of Maine Reports of the Committees of the Council…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"… over from ship-building days, was purchased but improvement was delayed while the city debated a 1959 proposal for urban renewal."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture
"… cars made the export of meat possible as well as improved the condition of eggs and fruit. (More about Lowell's Store) The train stopped at the…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"… town road, the responsibility for maintenance and improvement became a public matter and was paid for by all taxpayers! Possibly the First Inland…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould
"… in poor shape and needed quite a few repairs and improvements. In light of these factors, he rejected Johnson’s proposal."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle
"… cash for their crop, paid off their mortgages, improved their farm buildings and their homes and found themselves with more leisure time."
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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit
"… would be funded by a federal Hill-Burton grant to improve hospital technology. The remaining funds for the hospital had to be raised by the…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education
"Soon there was money expended for improvement in Pratt Field. Pratt Field would eventually host team sports and Chatauqua gatherings."