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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco During the Civil War, the State of Maine provided aid to the families of…"
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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco From the Union and Journal (Biddeford, Me.), May 10, 1861, p.2."
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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco J.G. Deering & Son Lumber Co., Biddeford, ca."
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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Ice cutting on the Saco River, Biddeford-Saco, 1908McArthur Public Library…"
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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco X Granite quarries became more popular in Biddeford during the Civil War."
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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Abraham Lincoln's Deathbed Scene, ca."
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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Civil War Veterans of Biddeford, 1916McArthur Public Library Reality…"
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"II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor Piles of logs along the Saco River, ca."
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"II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor Saco River narrows, Biddeford, ca."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - A word of thanks
"A word of thanks We would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for the help and support they provided to Team Biddeford and the…"
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"Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea Wabanaki beaded purse, ca. 1870Hudson Museum, Univ."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4
"… what is presumed the first naval battle of the Revolution occurred in Machias when townspeople fired on the British schooner Margaretta, killing…"
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Historic Hallowell - A Bay State Exodus
"Each decade after the Revolution saw the population of the area increase by 10,000 or more. Two of the early arrivals were Ephraim and Martha…"
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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 2
"… a cost standpoint, circular sawed lumber made possible the large barns required by the emerging dairy industry in the post-Civil War period."
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Historic Hallowell - In Sickness and in Health
"… To Modern Medicine In the years following the Revolution many trained physicians came to the Kennebec Valley to establish medical practices."
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"… perhaps due to the fact that it was settled post-Revolution. Penobscot chief Joseph Orono joined with the colonists to fight the British in 1779…"
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Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography
"… town’s flourishing pre Civil War shipbuilding industry and the many mariners who resided there. George Allen Soule, Yarmouth, ca."
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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2
"Local industries are depicted in an ambrotype of a large saw mill in Monmouth and a tintype of a tannery in East Bradford."
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"… and actively supported the colonists in the Revolution. This was Stephen Titcomb’s heritage as he prepared to establish a home in the wilderness in…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village
"No sooner had the engine wheels made their first revolution on the new depot grounds, than some five hundred voices sent up their shouts of welcome."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4
"Leamon, James S. Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1993."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4
"… King died on 27 March 1775 on the eve of the Revolution. Source Moulton, Augustus. Grandfather Tales of Scarborough."
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Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property
"… had migrated north from Kittery, Maine, after the revolution and purchased land in what was to become the Town of Surry in 1803."
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Early Maine Photography - Occupational
"Occupational James Jones, Farmington, ca. 1854Maine Historical Society In the nineteenth century, individuals often chose to be photographed…"