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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Many Hampden women worked in the mill’s rag room. In 1840 another Hampden mill, the Norton Paper Mill, began operation using machinery to make paper…"

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South Portland Historical Society

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United Society of Shakers

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Davistown Museum

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Kennebunkport Historical Society

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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 1 of 3

"… nurses were capable of going into a home making a room surgically clean; preparing a patient for operation, even for abdominal surgery…"

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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3

"… in uniform, nurses wear their caps to the dining room as well as to the classroom.” Another institutional tradition involved the Mercy Hospital…"

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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"A “machine room” and a “laboratory” were constructed. Beneath them, in the water, were placed specially constructed wooden boxes called accumulators…"

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Prince Memorial Library

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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… of Maine Guilford Woolen Mill Finishing Room Crew, ca, 1890Guilford Historical Society In 1824, the first dam across the Piscataquis River in…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"… was swung around and relocated westward to make room for the first Asticou Inn structure built in 1883."

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"… 4) Guilford Memorial Library, Chase-Em-In Tea Room, Masonic Hall 5) Oldest House in Guilford Odd Fellows Hall Text by Billy Gilbert and Jesse…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"… high and grew so close to each other there was no room for limbs to sprout for the first eighty feet."

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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"Then they went to the Packing Room where women and girls placed the herring in cans, generally in a large well-lit area on the second floor."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… $525 with the proviso that he, Thomas, retain one room and a chamber for the remainder of his life. Jeremiah purchased another 15 acres from the…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… area is fortunate that the only remaining one-room school did not succumb to time and a bulldozer."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… lived too far away to walk to school would find room and board close by. George Stevens was a reputable, distinguished, and even prestigious…"

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

"… as a result of overcrowding in the town's one room schoolhouses. The Old Town House is now owned by North Yarmouth Historical Society."

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Pejepscot Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… the town boasted 32 school districts, mostly one-room schoolhouses. In John S.C. Abbott’s History of Maine, Farmington was touted as a community…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"Convenient store-rooms for the large amount of goods shipped over this road is every day becoming more of a necessity, and we believe the time is not…"