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Fort Kent Historical Society

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… Johnson Hall in New York and even further west at Fort Niagara. The fundamental treaty that made fixing the international border such a long and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 While national and imperial leaders were pleased with the 1842 border…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Essay by Liam Riordan Riordan is American historian specializing in the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Manuscript Map of Moose River, Moosehead Lake, and Kennebeck Road…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca."

Acadian Archives

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"George (the area later known as Fort Wharf), the fort was located at the southeastern side of lower Knox Street, currently the site of the Lyman…"

Blake Library Special Collections, UMFK

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Maine Farmer's Exchange (MFX) Building

"Presque Isle, 2006. Graves III, Richard A. Forgotten Times: A Walk Though History. Fort Fairfield, Maine: C3creative, 2007."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… the war, about 175 remaining settlers left the fort and went back to their farms, and the garrison at the fort was discontinued by 1762."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 9 of 13

"… from the northern part of Aroostook from the Fort Kent, Madawaska, and Van Buren areas would come to Presque Isle to work in various harvesting…"

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

"… sided with the Penobscots in the 1730s, against local settlers, because of Dummer’s Treaty. This is like the outcome of the Passamaquoddy v."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"… at the mouth of the Saco River and Union forts at Portland Harbor. There is Biddeford granite in the Lincoln monument in Springfield, Illinois and…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Schools

"… the founders constructed a meeting house at “the Fort,” a movement for the funding of the school was organized."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"After being forced to pay the locals for this land, some New Englanders said that “Indian deeds” were a valid form of title on their own, rather than…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"… of using the site as a base for converting the local population. The French quickly abandoned the island, however, after a disastrous winter that…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… area still ran along the river, and were close by Fort Mary (the local garrison) or the village of Winter Harbor, and settlers continued to farm…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrap & Sketch Book 2: 1864-1866

"… performance, loss of manners   Part 7, pages 114-134 Soldiers, Fort Point excursion, women's fashion, behavior; crime, dance X"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… River from Prospect to Buckport, just upriver of Fort Knox. Otherwise they had to travel all the way to Bangor and down US Route 1A to Surry."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… century lime kilns were operating near the old Fort Wharf, located at the base of Knox Street, near where the Knox mansion had stood."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"While a new fort was built at the western side of Garrison Cove, the settlers lived aboard their ship."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina’s harbor."