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

"In the winter of 1807 John Everton moved his family into the settlement which was a real blessing as Mrs. Everton was skilled in obstetrics."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… pioneer Maurice Tourneur's movie Woman (1918), John van den Broeck, a 23-year-old Dutch cinematographer, slipped and fell from a cliff to his death…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… built along the Souadabscook Stream in 1835 by John Crosby. It used no machinery; the paper was pressed in hand screens and stretched on poles to…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"George F. Patten and John Patten were the largest shareholders. They held 16 out of 100 shares, when 86 other members went to buy shares."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"… Free Library The Alameda was built in 1882 by John O. Patten, Harry H. Donnell, Frank H. Haggett, Harry E. Stetson, and Thomas W. Morse."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… Hill, a professor of music at Wellesley, and John Holman -- were well-connected in musical circles. Mrs."

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Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"… was established in Guilford existed in Captain John Bennett’s shed. School was in session two times per year."

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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"… and operated as a bed & breakfast operation by John and Pat Selicious, and Lynn and Harry Anderson in 1998."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"Thurlow’s grandsons, Michael and John Thurlow. To maintain healthy stocks and assure consumer food safety, clamming is highly regulated."

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Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"… housing, secured a $20,000 grant from brothers John, Richard and Charles Gendron to finance a study."

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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… in late 1960, setting up offices in the old John Trenholm barber shop on the left side of Washington Street, Highway 189, close in proximity to the…"

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Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"John Tyler drove the truck that pulled the float. J: Did they continue to hold the contest? S: No, I think that was the last year."

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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"This was later the home of Attorney John P. White. The office building shown on the left was later relocated across the street and is still operating…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… and Cottage Industries map of Islesboro  Text by John Mitchell Blacksmith, Islesboro, ca. 1890Islesboro Historical Society The island of…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"John Philbrook, for whom Phillbrook Cove is named, acquired 100 arces in 1774 for about $2.00 per acre. This island was in School District No."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… to several books, in 1846, William Rogers, John Patten, Jeremiah Robinson, Otis Kimball, and Caleb S."

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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… in 1789; Daniel Lunt of Falmouth in 1790; John Fox of Portland in 1792; in 1794 to Isaac Thompson, Joshua Eddy, and William Thompson, all of…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… along side his father and brothers, Charles, John, and Walter. His father passed away in May of 1872 when Arthur was only 15."

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

"John Elliott built a mill on Lemon Stream at the Great Works in the West Village in 1803, taking advantage of the abundant forests."

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Bangor Public Library

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

"None were injured except John Cowett, whose leg was badly broken below the knee, the bone being split and forced through the flesh."

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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"According to John Gilman, the author of the business history of the canneries, 1952 was the year the key cans were introduced."

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Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"… Family, the Drake Family, the Cummings Family, John and Pat Selicious, Lynn and Harry Anderson, and photographer Steve Maines."