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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… although many other practical jokes survived the new technology! SEE NOTES Consolidated School, Swan's Island, 1954Swan's Island Historical…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… the Boston & Maine Railroad was forced to build its own extension from South Berwick to Portland. This extension opened in 1873."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"The flames took the buildings on lower Broadway then headed south on the west side on Main Street. All the buildings burned on the west side except…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… manufacturing plants in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Northern New York, which included the Rumford Falls Paper Company."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… project 2001 • New Lubec Memorial Library building completed • Connors Brothers plant (former Booth Fisheries Factory B) closes – last sardine…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"… from the Congregational Church, used the church building as they raised money to build their own church."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"A school building was erected on Roxbury Road and one near Highland Terrace before 1850. The next to come was the Walton School, then the Kingdom…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… building, Charles made another urgent journey to New York City to enlist a land swap with JDR, Jr., that enabled the proposed utility building to…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… she was succeeded by Llewellyn V Joyce In 1897 a new office was established in what was formerly school district No 4 and was named Minturn Mrs…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… piece of land to the academy and $1000 to build a new building. His only condition was that the school accept all denominations."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… after the Revolution War, deciding then to make a new start in a new country. He settled first in Hallowell, Maine, where he remained for about six…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"Built in 1859-60 for the new owners, Timothy Belcher and new wife, Margaret, may have been the “Talk of the Town” for a young couple starting out."

Southwest Harbor Public Library

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Fryeburg Public Library

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone

"… so much so that she accepted a position at the New Britain Model School in New Britain, Connecticut."

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"Here it is up to the eaves of the building, and young Fletcher Downes is standing on top of the bank."

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

"Upon his death, provisions in his will led to the building of Greely Institute, which opened on September 28, 1868 and held its first public…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"… of their list was to see if it was possible to build a road from the headwaters of the Connecticut River to the Kennebec."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"The buildings and land surrounding it remains much the same now as in early days and is still called The Gregory Inn."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"… of Frankfort, and most likely helped design and build Fort Western, Fort Halifax, and the Pownalborough Courthouse."

Acadian Archives

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

"Emery, was largely a pine-and-paint building, modest but not without bucolic charm. The theater held about 620 and entertained the wealthy and the…"

Skowhegan History House

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