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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"With the introduction of the Portland Herald, Senator Hale and his Daily Press began to feel pressure from their lower advertising revenues."

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"The west line, also a part of the south line of New Portland, is the county line between Franklin and Somerset counties."

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"Col. F. B. Morse who lived on the South road, came forward with the idea of a suspension or wire bridge."

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Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… I forget the loving kindness I received there.” A South Portland resident writing in 1964 went even further."

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Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"… (1922), the Fidelity Trust Company Bank in South Portland (1928), the Canal Bank in Portland (1930), and the Fidelity Trust Company Bank in…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"For Western Maine, well-known Deering High of South Portland; for Eastern Maine, the Hampden Academy boys, a team that had yet to win a state…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"And the Normal School would be the catalyst for improved education in the public sector. Farmington is a proud community – proud of their downtown…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… Dirigo Ice Company, and shipped to cities in the south to help aid in refrigeration. Although travel on the Penobscot River remained important to…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"The train traveled from Portland stopping at stations in Scarborough and other towns on its way to South Berwick where it connected with the Boston &…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… by Miss Evelyn Randlett, who was Islesboro High School's valedictorian that year. The new boat began running on June 27, 1936 but it quickly became…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"In the heyday of the trolley, one could travel south as far as Philadelphia or north to Bangor and beyond using connecting lines."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… the travel to reach the depots from the north and south without difficulty. Oct. 6, 1870: Upon the completion of the Railroad Bridge to this…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"Beginning in the 1860s, the Portland Railroad Company operated horse-drawn cars on rails that ran through Scarborough and other area towns."

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"The quarry on South Street was opened to supply stone for the Western Division Railroad built in 1872."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Serving the high school students of Cumberland and North Yarmouth, the Greely Institute building with its distinctive belltower was built in 1868…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"In 2008 the West Peru Elementary School was closed and a new elementary school, entitled Dirigo Elementary, was built to house students in grades…"

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"established in Lubec • First Lubec High School class graduates (1897) 1900s 1900 • Census results – 3,005 1902 • Lubec Water & Electric District…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"The north-south length of the downtown is easily traversed in a 15-minute walk southward along Front Street from the Patten Free Library to the…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… an art teacher at the Rumford/Mountain Valley High School for 37 years. Currently the New Pennacook Arts Center, with rotating exhibits in the Tech…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… owned a ferry business that went from Portland to South Portland until 1896. He was even in the silver and coal mining business in Maine."

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… competitive sports teams and, in 1965, the Lubec High School Marching Band traveled to Washington D.C."

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Doughty School; and Priscilla Soucie, School Library Media Specialist, William S. Cohen School Howard House, Bangor, 1869Bangor Public Library…"