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Presque Isle: The Star City - Braden Theater

"Sources: Clark, Janice. "Lights Go out for Good in Theater." Bangor Daily News 4 Jan. 1994. McCarty, Kathy."

Milbridge Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"… spectacular, because if you get in the right sun light, you could see the glowing of the ice shining right into your eyes."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"Sometimes the trains used two engines to haul a big load of wood. Coal was also hauled into Franklin County by train."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 3 of 3

"She found two old books, both in fragile condition, but she didn’t know what to do with them. “I just left them there for awhile, but I thought I…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Student Research

"Our two classes feel like we have learned a great deal about our town from our research about this time period."

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1870 to 1900

"… for fuller sleeves, is a London made cream light wool cape with purple silk lining, lace shoulder frills and high lace trimmed collar."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong

"The reconstruction took nearly two years.) For a sampling of products of Forster Mfg. Co., click here. Strong Wood Turning Corp."

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

"… thousand posts, ranging in size from fewer than two dozen members in small towns, to more than one thousand in some cities."

Historic Hallowell - Uniforms and Expenses

"Police officers wore light undershirts and a heavier warmer jacket to cover them, and these two items were normally tan and brown.The fabrics were…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Additions and New Wing - 1824 to 1843

"These window openings allowed plenty of light and fresh air. The cells were warmed in the colder months by four box stoves. <- Prev."

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 1 of 3

"… of Nursing graduates, Portland, 1944Northern Light Mercy Hospital The Queen's Hospital Training School for Nurses Soon after Queen’s Hospital…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"These days, people will catch one or two fish a day. A "Take-Out Dinner" fresh from the brook, Strong, ca."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"… seat for every child.” Five teachers spent about two-week’s pay to purchase their own desks to assist in furnishing their rooms."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"For her lunch Lura carried two apples and a piece of gingerbread. Lura would usually walk back home after the afternoon session."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"Two hundred years before zip codes and email, mail delivery was relatively simple and unsophisticated."

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"During the war, even the lights on the Thomas Hill Standpipe, which supplied the water for the city of Bangor, were extinguished, and the tower…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"During one terrible storm, lighting hit in the middle of a cow pasture killing the whole herd of cows."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"… it a true urban area: city water (1885), electric lights (1886), the horse-drawn and then electric street railway (1888, 1892)."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… Passamaquoddy paddler simply wanted matches to light his pipe. In short, as one local put it, “A birch canoe was a good boat if there was an Indian…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"It was also voted on August 23, 1904, to build an annex. In 1918, a tennis court was built at the rear of the building and electric lights were…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"Islanders petitioned for a light house in 1857, and by 1872 the Burnt Coat Harbor Light Station was in operation."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… was at least two months before he was able to do light work, and then only in great pain. He could work no more than an hour at a time before he…"

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

"It was so light when we got [to] the tin bridge that we didn't need head lights and when struck there the flames looked miles high in front of us and…"