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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"… needed, as was additional supplies of steam and electricity, as well as an increased ability to recover chemicals."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"Power now was in abundance such that electrical power was made available for many miles from its point of origin."

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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… summer colony there while hardly touching the Western side of the island, including Northeast Harbor and the hamlet of Asticou."

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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… era with tens of thousands finding way to Western Quoddy Head annually, they photograph their families adjacent to the tower and the granite…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… in 1839 coincides with the expansion of the western United States more so than the development of central and southern Maine."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… to be a forerunner in politics, education and Western Maine business practices. Home of the award-winning University of Maine at Farmington, a…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… Ryder (1818-1881) who had inherited land on the western side of the harbor, built a small boarding house next to the steamboat wharf in the early…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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