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Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"… of his family’s clothes that they wore in their days. They must have had a lot of wool to make all of the clothes, but the mom must have made some…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… (1973, 1974, 1976, 1977), State Champs for three years (1974, 1976, 1977), and were New England Champs in 1976."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"Upon returning to Maine the next year, he bought a parcel of land on the west side of Worthley Pond in the town of Peru."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"The farming region existed above the Falls, especially in the East Rumford area. For 10 years after Chisholm’s first visit to the area the region…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"The Days sold to Errol Dearborn. (He was President of the Normal School at that time) Dearborn and wife sold to Bernard "Bing" Etzel; Mr."

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

"… Hill and north to their grant of land, present day New Gloucester, so we can assume that the bare beginnings of the county road first known as the…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"… joys, the mill is rebuilt! And on the day of the New Year, how perfect! This morning, the streets were filled with men on their way to the mill, on…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"Mazie Douglass X It was a sunny day in the 1940s. Mazie Patten Varney Douglass was out planting bulbs in her garden."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Memorial Library

"Librarians made $25 per year. A year of change for the library took place in 1895, when it was replenished with $200 to purchase books and remodel."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"In 1816, Maine experienced the “Year Without a Summer,” a devastating year for agriculture in which snow fell in June! Throughout the 1820s the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… year 1842, was the first 100,000,000 board foot year, and six years later lumber merchants shipped double this amount of lumber from Bangor's port."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"By the end of its first year, one hundred and thirty students had entered the school, the largest number the School saw in its first twenty-five…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… in 1821, changing its name from Partridgetown.” New County Road New County RoadPeru Historical Society A road was originally begun from the…"

Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines

"The first time it hit land was on Long Island, and New York. It hit Long Island directly as a category 2 hurricane."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… and accommodating up to 12,000 patrons a day, now borders the present-day Avalon Village Retirement Community off Route 1A."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"… political ties were crucial during the early days of the company. His brother, Edward was a member of the General Court’s Committee of Eastern…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"… of Champlain’s original camp ultimately won the day over Passamaquoddy testimony, and future commissions on the political fate of the islands in…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"It was that time of year again--Bangor was beginning to thaw out, and the ice on the Penobscot River was starting to break up and float down the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - North Church

"… in 1898, the Women's Alliance held an annual May Day fair, which raised funds to maintain the church until it was passed on to the Farmington…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 1 of 2

"… visited Rumford in a sleigh, on a cold winter’s day. He saw the potential of a commercial venture when he viewed the power and grandeur of the…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"… Sewall, the daughter of Portland merchant Ezekial Day. A Bowdoin educated attorney, Kiah Sewall practiced law in Mobile for two decades before the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… once every two months and usually for multiple days at a time. While MHS has provided extensive preservation and conservation work for the…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"After years and years of improving, the fire station has gotten better and better. To this very day, the fire station is still standing."