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Site Pages
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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5
"After years and years of improving, the fire station has gotten better and better. To this very day, the fire station is still standing."
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Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966
"… hands” or were “merging” but most remained and improved their services – including the bakery, hardware store, law offices and bank."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3
"… Patrons of Husbandry, a group interested in the improvement of farming. It was later renamed the Swift River Grange and located on Roxbury Road; it…"
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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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Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community
"… home-based network, now considered central to improving the health of our communities. EMHS then looked to VNA leader Colleen Hilton to merge all…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"Others stayed but barely survived. Conditions improved after the Revolutionary War but only gradually."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill
"Better roads also improved traveling conditions. The final cause was school consolidation. During the 40s and 50s Sedgwick, Penobscot, Brooksville…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"… influence, but for his direct impact on the day-to-day operations of a community in its infancy."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School
"… establishment of that long neglected source of improvement, a State Normal School... Farmington State Normal School, 1870Farmington Historical…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth
"… and grist mill and increased the water power by improving the dam. There was a carding mill operated by Mr. Purvis south of the bridge, near Mr."
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"Wages and working conditions improved as the industry grew. More on canning sardines in Lubec. Rise and Fall Lubec’s population rose to 3,363 by 1910."
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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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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"… leisure time for the middle and upper classes, improved railway and steamship lines made Maine more accessible, and many families sought to escape…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru
"As transportation improved, allowing the town to transport students to school, the number of schools decreased to three in 1896, then again to one, a…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village
"… looks like an old fashioned “cob house” on an improved scale. The interior is filled with heavy stones and gravel."
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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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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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Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present
"… Housing Assistance Grant was landed to make improvements for many homes in town. Guilford Downtown Revitalization Project X In 2009, everyone…"
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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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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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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…"