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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"Later the store was changed into Worthen’s Market. In 1952 a new heating system was put into the hall."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"Agricultural items got to market by a horse drawn tote wagon. There were few paying jobs and that meant little money available for families to…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… traders and manufacturers saw their overseas markets disappear. Business plummeted and ships languished."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… Bar Harbor, recognized that there was a growing market for a decidedly upscale motion-picture venue the island."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… 60’s the IGA moved into a new building, Worthen’s Market opened at the Odd Fellows Building, and a new church was built on High Street."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… prosperity for many who sent their surplus to markets outside of the area. Settled in 1780, the pioneers planted corn, potatoes and turnips to get…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… highway to national and even international markets. Soon wharfs, booms, and mills lined the Penobscot and Kenduskeag Rivers."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"Osie's Texaco Service Station calendar for North New Portland, 1948New Portland Historical Society The first house built in the North Village was…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… transportation of dairy and forest products to markets in Portland, Boston, New York and beyond. Several generations of Dolloffs used the premises…"

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"… and opportunities went downhill when the stock market crashed in 1929. Potatoes were down from 45¢ to 15¢ a barrel."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… Telegram, Sunday June 11, 1939 Big House Little House Back House Barn. Thomas C. Hubka, University Press of New England, 1984 Eastern Argus, May…"

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"that helps American businesses in foreign markets. He conducts international business in China and all around the world."

Acadian Archives

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… vessels were forbidden to trade with foreign markets, causing economic hardship in Lubec and Eastport."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… the key to the success of the industry, a viable market, was already passing. In 2001 the last canning plant in Lubec closed."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… clapboards, and laths were shipped to the Boston market while boards and 2’ X 4’s were sold locally."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"To market, it was cut into half-inch wide strips, and finally into three-quarter-inch inch pieces. The entire batch was dusted with cornstarch so…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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