Keywords: Mill Island
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Site Pages
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"… Consolidated School, Swan's Island, 1954Swan's Island Historical Society The separation between islanders decreased further when the three schools…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Bonnie and Donnie Staples' house
"… Staples at his store, Swan's Island, 1966Swan's Island Historical Society Island resident Carolyn Martin describes the store experience: "You went…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Caring For Our Families and Friends
"Those who served our island in the capacity of nurse that followed Miss Douglass are Ruth Osborne, Ann Calley, Leila Whitehill, Helen Bernstoff…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Old Buildings
"Old Buildings Bonnie and Donnie Staples' house Minturn Schoolhouse The Tea Room Redmen's Hall Seaside Hall Andrew Smith Store…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools
"Number Three was the Creek School located near Mill Creek. In District Number Four, a new school was built on the same location as an older school…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"The island switchboard was located in the rear of the Dark Harbor Post Office from 1902 to c. 1915. The switchboard moved to a small house on…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries
"Early island contractors and builders were responsible for erecting the large summer homes for wealthy summer residents, who spent two to three…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements
"… then “Longue Island Plantation” and then “Long Island.” In 1789, this island and the adjacent islands including Seven Hundred Acre, Job’s and Lime…"
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Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island
"old shoddy mill X Spinning Mill X Before bridges on the island, transportation was provided onto the island by a ferry."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4
"… and other buildings on the Island, and manage the mills. Their arrival increased the need for low-cost, reliable housing, which Mr."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2
"Individual donations to the Library; to mill workers at Christmas, and park maintenance were also attributed to him."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3
"… At the time of incorporation a cluster of mills had previously been established around the dams built on Webb River, the boundary line between…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3
"Captain Bradbury built a fulling mill on Spring's Island for the felting of woolen goods. Mill wheel bearing, Saco, ca."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3
"He hired Samuel Batchelder, who made the mill a success. Both men had hands in the Saco Water Power Company as well, the real estate and machinery…"
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Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family
"… which is on the Penobscot River, near where the mill is today. Their house burned to the ground in 1926, so the family proceeded to move to the…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase
"He was in the initial assault on Peleliu Island, where he was killed by mortar fire on September 20, 1944."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3
"Passengers then would ford the river to Peru. When the river was low, foot passengers could walk across from the island to Peru on a natural causeway."
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Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century
"… the land, and some of them worked at the paper mill in Bucksport. “Summer people” in Surry and in Blue Hill provided seasonal employment to a…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4
"… flood happened in March, 1936, when the Business Island was flooded; the Morse bridge, the steel Rumford Falls Bridge, the Rangeley Lakes Railroad…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2
"… ’74 team also went on to play in the New England Championship tournament in Bangor and lost to Providence Central High School of Rhode Island."
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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"… plus it housed a carding mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle mill, corn and barley gristmills. At the same time, many East Surry men, along with…"
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"… substantiate company land claims, and the roads, mills, and meetinghouses they built helped make the rest of the proprietors’ tracts more appealing…"
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Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook
"The woodworking shop milled lumber and produced cut lumber and moldings for carpenters and cabinetmakers, and also produced wood-block patterns for…"
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Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden
"Mount Desert Island was a place of environmental diversity and dramatic landscape well before it became a favorite summering place of Indigenous…"