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Lincoln, Maine - View of Mattanawcook Lake from Clark Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890

"There is only one house showing on Taylor Street. It was built by Dr. Edwin Stanley Taylor and is still there today. Hence the name Taylor Street."

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Maine State Archives

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Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"He used the house as a boarding house for men working at the sawmill and working in lumbering. This house became known as the Springer House."

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 1 of 2

"The Corro House is one of the oldest houses in town, located on West Broadway, next to Region III. The newest president is Jeannette King."

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Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"One is, Solomon’s Store and the House of Crafts and Flowers were located in the same place on Main Street."

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Lincoln, Maine - View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913

"Left of the tracks, the white house with the big set of barns is what is now the Lincoln Historical Society Museum."

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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"… copy is part of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House Collection, while Zilpah’s is found at the Craigie-Longfellow House in Cambridge."

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 2 of 2

"“After all, the Corro house is one of the most historic buildings in town.” The town had purchased the Corro house with plans to expand the library…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"We know this house today as the Corro House, located on West Broadway where the Lincoln Historical Society is."

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Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"Such houses were Joseph Corro's and Joseph Michaud’s houses. Monthly services were established at homes and reverends traveled far distances, even…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Oak Hotel

"… for housing relief for a shortage caused by the military moving into the area. The hotel consisted of forty-six units, mostly for single people."

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Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware

"… didn’t exist back then people couldn’t build houses, and there would be no jobs, they would have to build houses from hand and they would have to…"

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"Middle Street’s small frame and brick houses and buildings, the domed granite Merchants Exchange, and the Second Parish Church have long vanished…"

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"… Madison conducted the social life of the White House. When the British burned Washington in 1814, she rescued the full-length portrait of George…"

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"This photograph was taken between the completion of Mussey’s Row in 1852 and the alteration of the Preble House in 1859."

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"Tip Top House, Mount Washington, New Hampshire, ca. 1861Maine Historical Society A daguerreotype of a white columned Greek Revival house is believed…"

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Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan Then and Now

"… Then and Now Bicycle ClubSkowhegan History House This movie was part of our heritage studies."

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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"… assisted him in the trade of finish carpentry for houses and buildings from 1856 to 1871. The Weeks family resided on such Munjoy Hill streets as…"

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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"The Turner House was partially lost to fire in the year 1903. One hundred years later, in 2003, the Braeburn Hotel was completely lost to fire."

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Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 2 of 3

"In 1914 they played in the parish house for two years. The 1915 team won the county title. In 1916 and 1917, however, the boys were excluded from the…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Memorial Library

"The library was located in houses and stores for 46 years before the brick building was built. The actual building was started from a $7,000 donation…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"… built the first construction which was the first house and first store in Lincoln. Eleven years later, in 1835, he left Lincoln and went to New…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"The Penobscot House was built in 1847 to hold steamboat passengers. The Penobscot House was a hotel located in Lincoln Center and was a stopping…"

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Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"They soon built a house on Mattanawcook Island, which is on the Penobscot River, near where the mill is today."