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Acadia National Park

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"Riverside Park was not unlike other amusement parks and resorts of the period. Landscape and civil engineer Frank Blaisdell drew up the plans for the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards

"A round trip ticket to the park, from the Main Road just over 2 tenths of a mile, cost 10 cents and included free admission."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times

"However, as time passed and places like Riverside Park that offered social opportunities closed, people looked to other towns and cities for…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"A round trip ticket to the park, from the Main Road just over 2 tenths of a mile, cost 10 cents and included free admission."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"Just to the north of Meeting House Park is the town's World War I Memorial Arch. References The "Abstract", a local compilation of highlights from…"

City of Brewer

Brewer is the gateway to coastal communities and Acadia National Park. The city along with Bangor also serves as a trading and distribution center for the coastal areas and towns and cities to the north with the total region having a population of approximately 250,000 people.

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"… the area, and others came to live and work in the town later in life, they all spent time living in and enjoying the many wonderful aspects of the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Works Cited

"Historical Sketches of the Town of Hampden, Maine. Ellsworth, Maine: The Ellsworth American, 1976. Hansord-Miller, Frank."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"There is also mention of his business and political life in the Town Records. In 1806 Mr. Crosby was named the president of the First Bank in…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - War of 1812

"… was allowed to make the decision to defend the town. The two leaders assured the citizenry that victory was all but guaranteed."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"It was not an event that shaped town history and probably not more than a half dozen people even knew about it, but the picture of those bears has…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Incorporation

"… court, sending a committee composed of Amos Dole, town clerk, John Crosby, and Reuben Newcomb. The response on June 8, 1790 was that those who…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… Hampden and carried passengers and freight from town to town along the Penobscot from making trips to Boston when necessary."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"It wasn’t really a gym at all, but the town hall. It was the first floor of the town hall that was used as the “multipurpose room.” Hampden Academy…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"… school year, however, classes were held in the town hall. Within a few years of the second fire, the events of the Civil War called away so…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… Society While Hampden was not the first town incorporated in the Penobscot County area it was the first to be inhabited by white settlers…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"Summer Street X Text by a Reeds Brook Middle School student Walking Tour of Historic Summer Street No neighborhood is more reminiscent of…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"Buttons The Ragman Text by a Reeds Brook Middle School student as told by Alice Hawes A horse and wagon are at your door."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - About Us

"About Us The Maine Community Heritage Project (MCHP), a partnership between the Maine Historical Society and Maine State Library, is an innovative…"

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

"At first it was named Maplewood Park and was privately-owned. It was called Maplewood Park because of the Maplewood Hotel and its maple trees which…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"… placed in many towns or courthouse squares and parks. The members also gave battle-stained flags, mementos, and documents to local museums."

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

"The members of the G.A.R. also gave battle flags, documents, and mementos to the local museums. Edmund B. Clayton was from the town of Farmington."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"Gorham Parks Fassett was born on July 23, 1839. He was born in Freeman. He was the son of George and Mary Ann Parks."