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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"… of scarlet fever which closed the school for some time. Percy Spaulding remembered three special days in 1905 at the old schoolhouse; the picnic on…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Daggett Bros. StoreStrong Historical Society Some landmarks remain today. One of them is the present Beal’s General Store."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"The area surrounding Rollo Pond has been improved into a park, and some of the walking paths have been recreated."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"They traveled the ocean, rivers, lakes and ponds in birch bark canoes, making seasonal journeys to hunt and gather wild animal and plant foods."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"The ponds were stocked with over 5000 trout. Sources: Mitchell, H. E. Cumberland and No. Yarmouth register, 1904. Reprint."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… alternately flooding and emptying the Salt Pond. The town's tax assessor in 1792 reported 50 houses, 8 mills, 6 stores, 95 oxen, 178 cows, 58 hogs…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"Shettleworth, Jr. Jordan Pond House staff, ca. 1910Great Harbor Maritime Museum Most Wabanakis who came to Mount Desert avoided the confines of…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"The Sowadabscook Stream is the outlet for three ponds and its rushing water allowed for much needed water power early in the settlement of the town."

Seal Cove Auto Museum

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Belfast Free Library

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Lumber Mill at the Mill Pond, Somesville, ca. 1905Mount Desert Island Historical Society Somesville was by now the economic and cultural center of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"As with other some of the other social movements of the times, the abolitionist movement was very connected to religious beliefs."

Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"… Clay’s parents ended up moving to Cold Stream Pond in Enfield, and Jonathan Clay, Jr. later married a girl from Freedom, Maine."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"1915Islesboro Historical Society Meadow Pond, Islesboro, ca. 1900Islesboro Historical Society TURTLE HEAD AND MEADOW POND According to an…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… Salmon Stream, and a small outlet from Davis Pond thus three areas; Guilford Village, Guilford Center, and North Guilford, each sprouting small…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… and around the islands, swimming in Lower Hadlock Pond, climbing and tramping across the bare summits and through the forest, all the while…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… at Black Point about a half mile north of Great Pond (later known as Massacre Pond), because the "neck" was too far away to be accessible to the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"… rendered unrepairable when it fell into the ice pond in the park. It was soon replaced with the Spirit of the Sea."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… a parcel of land on the west side of Worthley Pond in the town of Peru. He contracted someone to build him a barn one year and a house the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… to travel from the Kennebec River, through ponds and streams, until they reached the Little Norridgewock to Sandy River."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Pond's main thesis was that slavery violated man's God given rights to freedom; slavery must be ended."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… over the mountain, past the west side of Worthley Pond, and continue southeast to the Sumner town line, which would then continue to the county…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"Radiocarbon dates from basal sediments of Mansell Pond indicate that it was ice free by 12,400 C14 yrs BP, or about 13,200 calendar years ago."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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