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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"2012. Web. 05 February 2014. Our Heritage. Bangor Museum and History Center. Visitbangormaine.com. 2014. Web. 24 May 2014. Reilly, Wayne E."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"… Track Team, 1921Scarborough Historical Society & Museum The Scarborough School System's extra curricular activities have changed and grown since…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"1921Great Harbor Maritime Museum In 1900 when the YMCA opened in Bar Harbor (in a building that is now the site of the Abbe Museum) the organization…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"Chase Grocery Store, Bath, ca. 1895Maine Maritime Museum Before the drugstore, a well-respected grocery store owned by Hiram L."

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"Woman's Suffrage, National Women's History Museum, 2015, www.crusadeforthevote.org/early-efforts/. Accessed 25 May 2017."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Wabanaki encampment, ca. 1000 BCEAbbe Museum While great change came to the Wabanaki on and around MDI over the next several hundred years, they are…"

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Historic Hallowell - Logging

"1950Ambajejus Boom House Museum It was in the early 1900s when they logged and worked very hard along the Kennebec River."

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Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… which still exists in the Peacock Firefighting Museum as of 2010. Firefighting vehicle, Lubec, 1911Lubec Historical Society The I.O.R.M…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"… mother survive in the collection of the Bangor Museum and History Center. They give us a glimpse of the life of a Maine soldier in the Civil War."

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"Item contributed by the Bangor Museum and Center for History. X Conditions weren’t that much different in Andersonville prison, which was more…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"(JF) William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum. The Arts and Crafts of the Versatile Parson Fisher, 1768-1847, Downeast Books, 1967."

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Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"His citations and decoration along with his burial flag now reside in the Guilford Historical Society Museum."

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

"1879Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Testing Ian, grade 8 School items on display at the Scarborough Historical Society X Student…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

""Fly Rod" CrosbyMaine State Museum If one family member died of consumption, usually more family members caught it."

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Westport Island History Committee

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… US Military by the Numbers.” The National WWII Museum | New Orleans, The National WWII Museum | New Orleans…"

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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… West Quoddy Visitor prepared by the Maine State Museum, a standard 1000-watt theatrical type bulb powers the lantern as of 2009."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"1950Maine Maritime Museum The building that houses Wilson's Drug Store was built after the fire in 1837 and was owned by Lewis E."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"Also two of my father’s boats were in museums. One is in Massachusetts and one is in Penobscot Bay. He designed the one in Penobscot and it was very…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"… June 16, 1893Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Graduations ceremonies have not always been what they are now."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… Sagadahoc Preservation, Inc., the Maine Maritime Museum, Bath Historical Society, Bath Business Association, Main Street Bath and the City of Bath…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… Maine, stop by the Seashore Trolley Museum. Trolley Car Nos. 70 and 71 as well as engine #52 from the Aroostook Valley Railroad are on display…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"George Sawyer collection is on display at the Nylander Museum in Caribou. 5. Bruce Bourque “Twelve thousand Years: American Indians in Maine"

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

"United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013. Saucier, Roxanne Moore. "Panel OKs naming school after Cohen Bangor School…"