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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Past meets Present I am particularly struck by how similar the Proprietors’ documents and actions feel to…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Self Determination What strikes me as similar between the past and contemporary times is not only that we—as…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective What is not questioned, it seems, in either the 18th century, or the late 20th and early 21st centuries, is…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Boundary between United States and New Brunswick, undatedMaine Historical…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Sketch of Isle St. Croix, ca 1790 A sketch of Isle St."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune Essay by Donald Soctomah Description of Pagan and Chipman’s Meetings with Francis Joseph…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"He was the one who purchased the property that the Bath Fire Department was built on, which housed the #8 truck and the City of Bath water tanks."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… Sagadahoc Bridge now acts as the way to cross the Kennebec River by car, foot, or bicycle. In over 200 years at this intersection, time has never…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"Oliver’s son Galen C. Moses purchased the building in 1896, and owned it for three years. The Sagadahoc Real Estate Association, which purchased the…"

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Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"By 1853 this company processed more than 128 million feed of logs. The river drive in later years transported great quantities of long logs, and…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"… would also go onto purchase Augusta newspaper the Kennebec Journal. Guy Gannett’s only printing experience came from working for his father…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"… the headwaters of the Connecticut River to the Kennebec. Years later their efforts turned into the Coos Road, running from northern Vermont down…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… and Breadth of Maine, by Stanley Bearce Attwood, printed by the Kennebec Journal Print Shop, Augusta, Maine, no date listed; pages 27 and 218."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… made with the Committee of the Proprietors of the Kennebec Purchase, by Ruben Colburn and his associates.” A survey would be completed at the…"