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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"The Village of Cockell: An Illustrated History of Pine Point, Maine. Wilmington, MA: Hampshire Press, 1988. Fogg, John D."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"… depression and war, 1929-1945.” In Maine: the Pine Tree State from prehistory to present, edited by Richard W. Judd, Edwin A. Churchill and Joel W."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 2 of 2

"Forest resources were utilized right away, and "pine boards and staves (for barrells) and clapboards" were among the first things made for trading…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"Web. 1 Jan 2010. (N) Maine: The Pine Tree State from prehistory to the present. Ed. Richard W. Judd, Edwin A. Churchill, Joel W. Eastman."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… for its forests of maple, birch, spruce, and pine, and logging was a major industry. The soil was quite good and yielded good crops of corn…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… Historical Society and Charlene Fenlason Pine Point Road, Scarborough, ca. 1907Scarborough Historical Society & Museum The first “roads” were…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"Miss Pine Point, Scarborough, 1938Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Various types of boats have been used by lobstermen through the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"… themselves as being from Dunstan, Oak Hill, Pine Point or other neighborhood until the 1990s. Rapid development started in the 1970s, as people…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"By the 1860’s, much of the big pine in the region had been cut, and many of the American-born loggers moved west, where the trees were bigger and the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… coastal land whose pristine forests and great pines called to them. They built their log houses during the summer, went back to Beverly and Andover…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"… had just walked across the 100 pound piece of pine wood when he heard the board strike the ground."

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… all that can be seen is a flattened area where pines have grown up. In the early twentieth century, a golf course was established on Parker Point…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Mary Snow was never married, and she never had children. Mary Snow was famous for being the first woman school superintendent in Maine."

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

"Maine's white pine, an ideal wood with many uses was used for masts for ships, lobster traps, and lumber for houses."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"DeFord, Deborah. Maine, the Pine Tree State. World Almanac Library, 2003. Frazier, Thomas B. "Stephen King." Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia…"