Keywords: Rockland
- Historical Items (308)
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Site Pages
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Fires - 1849 to 1924
"… have water piped to the prison by the Camden and Rockland Water Company. Paint Shop, State Prison, Thomaston, Maine c 1900Thomaston Historical…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - U.S. Flagship Hartford
"Packard, Aubigne L. A Town That Went to Sea. Rockland: Courier-Gazette Inc., 1987. This is where we got background information about ships that were…"
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Early Maine Photography - Post-Mortem & Mourning
"… was taken by his father Enos Crocket, an early Rockland photographer. This daguerreotype of Johnnie Crockett remained in the family until it joined…"
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Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen
"… the quarry on Dix Island, in Penobscot Bay, off Rockland He was thought to have come to Hallowell with Bodwell in 1872."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777
"… and included, until 1848, the towns of Rockland and South Thomaston. It is believed by many that the name of Thomaston was selected in honor of…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses
"… company contracted to bring the mail daily from Rockland to Old Harbor This is a much more direct route than when it went by the way of Tremont and…"
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Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings
"… the Rickers, who acquired the Bay Point Hotel in Rockland in 1902, renaming it the Samoset Hotel. That year Wilkinson provided the Rickers with a…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication
"Soon the steamer Rockland was stopping in Southwest Harbor on its way to Machias. This was its only Mount Desert stop, and the village would become…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life
"The Rockland, Blue Hill, Ellsworth Steamboat Company, which later became part of the Eastern Steamship Company, offered high class transportation to…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts
"… landing was host to regular steam boat trips from Rockland, and thus began the third summer community on Islesboro."
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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4
"The Fourth Maine volunteers were from the Rockland and Belfast area were known as the Limerock Regiment. Frederick's father, Leonard W."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES
"Rockland, Me.: The National Archives Project, 1942. (S) Pepperell Sheet Feb.1941: 24. McArthur Library Special Collections. (A) Pepperell Sheet Oct."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4
"… that met their passengers at the railhead in Rockland. They disembarked at the wharves on Peters’ Point or Parker Point where they might be met by…"
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"… school, or boarding with other families in the Rockland and Mount Desert Island area. Some were able to return to the island on weekends."
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Westport Island History Committee
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter
"History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, Maine. Vol. II. Hallowell, 1865. This brook briefly explains about Fales' life."
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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"… to Boston, and even a larger number running to Rockland with kiln wood. In that same Centennial Souvenir, Rev. J.D."
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"Snow Company shipyard in Rockland, Maine at 10 A.M on May 19, 1936. The ferryboat was christened by Miss Evelyn Randlett, who was Islesboro High…"