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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"Sources: "Lombard Steam Log Hauler." America's Only Steam and Threshing Enthusiast Magazine: Steam Traction - Farm Collector. Web. 6 Apr. 2010."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789

"… Maine's separation.[10] New Map of English America, 1677 Since Massachusetts was adjacent to New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York and Rhode…"

Tate House Museum

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Lincoln, Maine - World War I

"When the United States did enter, we entered as a part of the Allies. The whole war started because of the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"Growing up, my mother didn’t have a TV or toys. She grew up poor and moved to seek a new life in the United States of America."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"Mill Closes Lincoln and surrounding communities suffered another major blow in 1968 with the closure of the Eastern Fine Paper and Pulp Division of…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"After he moved to America, he worked at the Clark Thread Company in Newark, New Jersey. In 1874, he bought a sawmill in South Lincoln that was built…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 3 of 17

"Ice harvesting was not only a local, state or national trade, ice was shipped all over the world as far as South America, India and China."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 10 of 13

"… 1976 Yearbook of Agroculture THE FACE OF RURAL AMERICA X Frequently, the digger lags would come apart and the digger driver had to shut the…"

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

"The early Scottish settlers in Nova Scotia came from the Lodge of Edinburgh. In 1704, Johathan Belcher, later Governor of Massachusetts, was made a…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… was the crossroads of English and French North America, and all the old hatreds and arguments crossed from the Old World into the New with vicious…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Students said the Lord’s Prayer, sang "America," and saluted the flag. They learned poetry and performed plays."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3

"May her soul rest in peace.” Today, Fly Rod’s legacy is evident in Strong and other communities of Northern Franklin County through active guide…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 4 of 4

"… Act, shown here: "Resolved, that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"In many ways, WWI introduced the United States as a world power, and military demonstrations solidified its new role."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"This ill-defined boundary, based on an inaccurate map, was laid out in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Maine Historical Society The European history of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"It was a new version of a defining problem in the history of early Maine: conflicts sown by vague boundaries drawn on paper in faraway rooms."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"and Stan P., Sleeper, Frank H. Images of America: Presque Isle, Caribou and New Sweden. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1994. Stimpson, Rita M."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… Map - Mount Hope Cemetery Corp & Crematory - America's Second Garden Cemetery.” Mount Hope Cemetery Corp & Crematory, Mount Hope Cemetery Corp…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"… the first 1,000,000 subscriber magazine in the United States. The success of Comfort was also the major source of the families financial resources."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - "Good the more communicated, the more abundant grows" : The Thursday Club

"… life, the greater unity, the "all in all." -- Preface to THE HISTORY OF THE WOMAN'S CLUB MOVEMENT IN AMERICA, By Mrs. Jennie June Croly (1898)."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… just for tonight!”, became very popular here in America. That poem remained by far her best known, even though she published many poems, often in…"

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

"… Errors on the Border between the United States and British North America, 1782-1842,” Imago Mundi, 50 (1998), 105-125 Gregory, Alice."