Keywords: Penobscot River (Me.)
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"… all efforts to have land grants east of the Penobscot River confirmed by the Crown, as the charter required, were stymied."
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"Ranco, PhD (Penobscot), Fall 2022 The collections in the Beyond Borders project are important and significant to many audiences, including, and…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4
"… and Irish folks in the Spruce Street/Knox Street Penobscot Street areas had the Pettengill School. The Strathglass residence children attended…"
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"“A “Labyrinth of Uncertainties”: Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women Proprietors in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The…"
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"… canoe route between the St. John (Wolostoq) and Penobscot rivers that Chief Francis Joseph Neptune shared with Pagan on birch bark as well as…"
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"… federal recognition of Wabanaki Nations in Maine: Penobscot and Passamaquoddys in the 1970s, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians in 1980, and Mi’kmaq…"
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"… (later called the Waldo Patent) to the west of Penobscot Bay. For these proprietors and others like them who spearheaded smaller schemes…"
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"… where the General Court in Boston sided with the Penobscots in the 1730s, against local settlers, because of Dummer’s Treaty."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4
"Other stories claim he was from the Penobscot or Androscoggin tribes. In 1793, he was one of several Indians asked to determine the boundaries of…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin dream house, Bangor, 1866
"… 9 miles south of Bangor on the east side of the Penobscot River in an area known as Ball Hill. He indicated on the drawing where the Bangor &…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Revenue gunboat "Mahoning," Bangor, 1864
"He wrote that it was the first gunboat in the Penobscot River. He said it brought a group of Congressmen on an excursion to Bangor and the Maine…"
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"… between colonists and the Wabanaki in 1736, a Penobscot couple visited an English household to relay a warning."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Fish weir, Ball Hill Cove, Hampden, ca. 1832
"… the fish weir that residents constructed on the Penobscot River. The illustration appears on page 47 of the journal and Martin describes the…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Picnic, Fort Point Light, and Fort Pownal, 1865
"… by the First Parish, made the excursion down the Penobscot River on August 10, 1865. Martin wrote, "My family as a whole had never been down river…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194
"… picking up lumber and other material along the Penobscot River, a clam voyage to Cape Jellerson, saving a man at the eddy at Carls Point, a failed…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal
"Bangor 's location on the Penobscot River made it well-positioned geographically and economically to take advantage of lumber shortages in much of…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House
"… from the same quarry at Mussel Ridge Islands in Penobscot Bay. The architectural style of the 2.5 story building is Italianate."
