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Penobscot Marine Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"John joined the Marine Corps Reserve in 1943 after graduating from Mexico High School. He was in the initial assault on Peleliu Island, where he was…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"Mariners could continue as yacht captains. Indeed, some islanders even took up sailing for their own pleasure."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"There were sea captains (Master Mariners) in the Coggins (four generations), Treworgy, Clark, Haskell and Torrey families."

Maine Maritime Museum

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History Bibliography

"Bath, ME.: Marine Research Society of Bath, 1973. "Seaport on the Kennebec" Vol. 1, page 120 Brooks, Van Wyck."

Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"… pre Civil War shipbuilding industry and the many mariners who resided there. George Allen Soule, Yarmouth, ca."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"Various organisms, plant life and marine animals were attracted to the resulting mudflats and seed from salt-tolerant grasses took root and began to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond

"Perhaps to a mariner such as A.C. Savage his houses and outbuildings were considered another form of vessel like his schooners, and it did not seem…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"… the Hampden Historical Society and the Penobscot Marine Museum Upper Corner businesses, Hampden, circa 1904Hampden Historical Society Have…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… Creek, later converting it to the Electrolytic Marine Salts Company. Photo donated by Margaret Bailey."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… as their collection of rocks, plants, birds, and marine life, weather observations, and social activities."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"… Homer, landscape painter best known for his marine subjects, was born in Boston 24 February 1836 to Charles Savage Homer and Henrietta Benson…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Loring Kimball’s father’s fascinating old marine store, near the cove at the South of the present wharf, smelling of all tarry seafaring things…”…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… where he drew inspiration for his famous marine paintings. Lewis L. Litchfield Lewis Litchfield, station agent for the Boston & Maine Railroad in…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"Merchant Sail. Center Lovell, Me.: Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, 1955. (S) Flagg, James Montgomery. Roses and buckshot. New York: G.P."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… in the area collecting plants and insects and marine invertebrates and inspecting geology in the late nineteenth century, but the Champlain…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"It is known that local mariners Abraham Perkins and Ira Milliken had two boats built at the landing, one of them a brig named Angelina."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… age, beaconing safety to generations of anxious mariners. Ancient volcanic basalt, black and craggy, defile the entrance to Passamaquoddy Bay."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… by Portland YMCA • “Klondike” – Electrolytic Marine Salts Co. established in Lubec • First Lubec High School class graduates (1897) 1900s 1900 •…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… birth of another industry – The Electrolytic Marine Salts Company, "Klondike” -- the gold from seawater hoax. Ferry Lubec at Dock, Lubec, ca."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… Portland’s East Deering, across the cove from the Marine Hospital (now Martin's Point). Although the men were eager for action, they were at first…"