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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - About Us

"Route 1 and ME Route 131, is home to a growing collection of artifacts from the life and times of Major General Henry Knox."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… travel lanes, where inland roads met stagecoach routes. When railroad lines were established, in later years, villages grew where train depots were…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"… it hard that you settle the lands that God gave us without making us some consideration. -Passamaquoddy Chief Abowadwonit (1763)."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… Route: Walnut Hill Road to New Gloucester Road (Route 115 to Route 231) Around 1740 settlers from Gloucester, Massachusetts had followed an early…"

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Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… in a Model T Ford on the dirt road that was US Route 1 from Falmouth Foreside. If it rained, the clay roads were as slippery as snowy roads."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… the Severy Hill area, put up horses overnight en route to Dixfield Village, and a tavern and school were once located there."

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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"… fox farms on the Military Road, Transalpine Road, Route 2, and Fish Hill. Fox farms generally consisted of 200 foxes."

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Acadian Archives

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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