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Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"Prominent local businessman and politician Joseph Parker Bass and Ezra L. Stearns helped incorporate Maplewood Park, and its original architecture…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… the first permanent settlers were John Roundy and Joseph Wood. They settled near the reversing falls and the Salt Pond."

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

"He met Joseph Brown and Nathaniel Davis on their way with their families. When Stephen Titcomb and his family got to their lot they found that the…"

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"Elizabeth’s Home, which in 1887 became St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Orphan Asylum, and in 1968 St. Elizabeth’s Child Development Center."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"In 1780 Joseph North formalized the survey of the area. The innovative founders in 1776, lacking a “chain”, the tool used to measure land, staked out…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"… of Pagan and Chipman’s Meetings with Francis Joseph Neptune, 1796Maine Historical Society Francis Joseph Neptune (1760-1834) grew up in a…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 1 of 2

"Joseph Healthcare. Eastern Maine Medical Center History Beginnings After the public discussed wanting a local hospital, a petition was started in…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"St. Joseph's Catholic Church The Catholic Parish of St. Joseph’s had become an integral part of Farmington since the Church was built in 1872."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"Early Schools Text By: Kathy Lambert Return to Online Exhibits The early schools of Strong were called rural or district schools and were situated…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 604-650

"… Martin Bangor High School Division Street School Joseph E. Littlefield Bangor Girls First Select School Third Parish Church Prof."

Presque Isle: The Star City - State Street Baptist Church

"The pastor at that time was Joseph Roberts. In 1880, land was purchased on the corner of what is now Second and State Streets and the building known…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"When the building opened in 1858, Joseph Berry was Collector of Customs and Joseph C. Snow was U.S. Postmaster. The U.S."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"Seven pioneer families, those of Thomas Eustis, Joseph Eustis, Samuel Knapp, Stephen Barnard, Isaac Gleasson, Benjamin Edwards, and Zebediah Mitchell…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… Of those listed on the Soldier's Monument, Joseph Pepper and George Pepper deserve special mention because George's letters to his mother still…"

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"With O’Brien as president, Joseph Williamson Byron and Boyd Bowditch Mower were the directors of the company."

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

"Mrs. Virgil Kline, a descendant of Joseph Wood, one of Blue Hill's founders, was director of an opera company in Boston."

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

"… Historical Society, Rodney Laughton and Joseph W. Snow Pine Point RR Station, Scarborough, ca."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Jabez Mowry, Sherman Leland, Samuel Beals, Joseph Clark Jr. and Benjamin Reynolds appointed to draft the bill of incorporation • “Lubeck”, as it…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"The Chief Engineer, Joseph W. Taney, and his crew surveyed the route and began construction. The company ran short of funds and the building ceased."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"In 1853 the White Mountain guide Joseph A. Hall proposed to Abner Lowell, a Portland jeweler and mountain enthusiast, a plan for a carriage road to…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"He was then captured on June 24,1864, at St. Mary’s Church in Virginia. He died on October 6, 1864, in Andersonville Prison of scorbutus."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"Croix, based on a sketch by British surveyor Joseph Bouchette of Montreal, includes an iron ring on a tree, placed by surveyors to identify the…"