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Architecture & Landscape database - Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975

"Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for Development…"

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West Quoddy Head Light Keepers Association

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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… is definitely the U.S.” By July, 1808 the timber tower and a keeper’s house were complete though the exact date of first illumination is lost to…"

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Lincoln, Maine - View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913

"… seen in the background with the Methodist Church tower seen on the left in front of the hill. On the extreme right, the railroad tracks can be seen…"

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First Parish in Portland

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle Congregational Church

"It was a plain white building with a bell tower and forty-four pews. The total cost of the church was 4,750 dollars."

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Maine Forest Service

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Bar Harbor Fire Department

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Bridge That Changed The Map

"South support tower and cable anchoragesStrong Historical Society Support towers were framed and braced to evenly distribute the load on mortared…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Telephone communication

"A microwave tower was erected on Swan’s Island across the road from what is now the transfer station."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… sprawling “Keewaydin” with its 35-foot-high stone tower – both in Seal Harbor. Bird’s eye view of Bar Harbor in the heyday of hotels, cottages…"

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Museum at Portland Head

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Greater Portland Landmarks

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Oakfield Historical Society

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"The three-story building with a bell tower is 56 feet wide and 82 feet deep. It is a fireproof structure made of limestone and bricks with a granite…"

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"At the far left is seen the tower of the Free Will Baptist Church on Casco Street and Commodore Edward Preble’s house at Congress and Preble Streets…"

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Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"An abandoned fire tower remained when this photo was taken. Myron Avery Peak of Bigelow Mountain X A boulder on Avery Peak commemorates the man."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"The bell is currently in the tower on top of the new City Hall, the Davenport Memorial. In the Old City Hall there used to be a police station in the…"

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Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"… the city of Bangor, were extinguished, and the tower itself was camouflaged with drab olive paint."

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

"… exceptional 198' wire suspension span with wooden towers and a wooden deck system was very likely patterned after the similar bridge constructed…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"1890Abbe Museum Big Thunder Towering in height and personality, Frank “Big Thunder” Loring, Penobscot, (1827-1906) was a leader among Wabanakis who…"

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Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… Hill saved City Hall with its notable clock tower. Firefighters were forced to dynamite the Universalist Church on Park Street to keep the fire…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"2nd Series, Vol. 22. Portland, Me.: Tower Co., 1916. Web. (Google Books) 1 Jan 2010. (N) "Maine Indian Tribes." Access Genealogy."

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"The new hose house had high towers for hanging hose to dry and a large stove to heat. Upstairs in the house there was a room for the meetings to be…"