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Millinocket Fire Department

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early 1800s

"The Honorable William King of Bath, who owned the Knox Wharf at the foot of Wadsworth Street, the Limestone Hill quarry and other valuable property…"

Wilson Museum

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"All the buildings burned on the west side except the Free Will Baptist Church. That small brick structure set back away from the road."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Site Resources

"Print. Haley, John West. The Rebel yell & the Yankee hurrah: the Civil War journal of a Maine volunteer. Camden, Me.: Down East Books, 1985."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Building Boom, early 19th century

"… North side of Main Street Business Block, Looking west to east, Thomaston, Maine 2008Thomaston Historical Society By 1830, the census reported…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The John Ruggles House

"… Ruggles House John Ruggles House, East Main Street, Thomaston, Maine 2008Thomaston Historical Society Senator John Ruggles designed and…"

Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines

"It is moving West North West at 14 MPH with 40 MPH winds. September 6th 1954 8:00 PM Tropical storm Edna becomes a category 1 hurricane and is now…"

Life on a Tidal River - About Us

"… Elizabeth Stevens, Special Collections BPL Dan West, Community volunteer in the classroom Dr. Henry Wyman, Community guest speaker in the classroom…"

Historic Hallowell - History Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved

"… Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved West Side, Water Street, Hallowell, ca. 1900Hubbard Free Library Historic Hallowell, a book giving a…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"West Main Street, Thomaston, ca. 1899Thomaston Historical Society Due to the thriving shipbuilding and lime quarrying businesses, the population in…"

Lithgow Public Library

"Grand fireplaces on the east and west walls face each other. Stained glass windows depict printers’ marks from the 15th and 16th centuries, as well…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1870 to 1915

"… next to it, a stable and the Knox Hotel to its west. Both the Watts Block and Knox Hotel were immediately rebuilt, the former being enlarged and…"

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"… those of Hain’s Ledge Quarry just a couple miles west of town provided easy access to the raw material and it was almost all down hill to the…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"… Museum Description The south side and west end of Third Parish Church, also known as Central Congregational Church, in Bangor are shown…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"Main Street West New PortlandNew Portland Historical Society Early life came heavily ingrained with religion."

Historic Hallowell - Blizzards in Hallowell

"… in Hallowell Blizzard, Union Street looking west, Hallowell, 1952Hubbard Free Library The blizzard of 1952 took place throughout the entire…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rufus Prince residence, Bangor, 1850

"… & north and the portion ocupied & used south & west I shall have to leave off the representations of two jogs one where the L joins the maine house…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"There were large amounts of untouched woods in Western Maine, but the only way to effectively transport the harvested timber to southern markets was…"

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

"Frank Green at 176 Broad Street on the west side of the Kenduskeag Stream. It spread among the wooden warehouses along Bangor’s working waterfront."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"Rumford Smith. They followed a west-north-west compass route and crossed the Sandy River at about what we now call the New Sharon Village."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… up to the present; 9000 from the Depot grounds in West Farmington, the west end of the bridge and 9000 on this site of the new depot grounds in…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… County on the midcoast of Maine dividing East and West Penobscot Bays. Early settlers arrived by various seacraft (or by sleigh over frozen water)…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Group, The Lunkhead Club, The Literary Society of West Farmington and The West Farmington Village Improvement Society were just a few."