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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"Milliken, John, et al. petitioned the 59th Legislature of Maine to abrogate previous legislative act allowing existence of the Southgate Diking…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Division of MDI Begins

"On February 22, 1796 the legislature of Massachusetts passed an act dividing the town of Mount Desert into two towns and incorporating Eden as a…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"It passed the legislature. Gould personally took the bill to the Governor and told him that he so strongly supported this bill he would pay for half…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"But by 1846 Maine State Legislature set up a Board of Education that paid the teachers’ salaries from common taxes and helped attract teachers."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"In 1941 the Maine State Legislature passed an act to create an independent state agency, the Maine Turnpike Authority, for the purpose of building a…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Bridge That Changed The Map

"… with 36 signatures was submitted to the state legislature in 1856, at about the same time Mr. Beedy was contracted to build the bridge."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"… Strong Water Company was created by an act of the Legislature on March 15, 1899. A corporation of seven townspeople was formed to construct and…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"About the year 1823, the Legislature made a law requiring the taxing of real estate for the building of school houses, and repairing the same in…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… was Bath’s representative in the Massachusetts legislature and later Maine’s foremost proponent of statehood, eventually chairing the…"