Keywords: Retreats
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - P.H. Tilson Death Notice
"… of the battle was to force the Confederates to retreat to their next line of defense; the Rappahannock River."
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - War of 1812
"… themselves alone on the battle field, they too retreated. Those officers included Major Chamberlain, whose grandson, Joshua, became a hero in the…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3
"… fencing in an effort to create a picturesque retreat. In the 1930s this place became known as the Gregory Inn and was operated as a hotel by the…"
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Frye Island Historical Society
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Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community
"… insisted that although “the spirit of prayer and retreat must be most dear to us,” that spirit “would never withdraw us from these works of mercy.”…"
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"… Among the earliest of the Boston rusticators to retreat to Mount Desert Island each summer was landscape engineer Joseph Henry Curtis (1841-1928)."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4
"The retreat from this second conflict was so complete that settlers did not return until around 1715."
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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry
"… roads and houses on the hillsides in place of the retreating forest. Then, at last, a beautiful town, the center of a prosperous region, the happy…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication
"… the first on the island to develop as a summer retreat. In 1857 the Rockland's Captain, Charles Deering, added Bar Harbor to his stops."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter
"… disappointed by seeing the coat tails of the retreating foes, streaming in a horizontal line from their bodies, where their wearers were going…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"… unwelcome guests for nearly three days before retreating down river. The selectmen had no idea how they would pay the sum of the bond to the…"
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