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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"1900Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Winslow Homer Winslow Homer, landscape painter best known for his marine subjects, was born in Boston 24…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"… conflict arose between Scarborough marsh diking company owners and clam diggers, boaters and fishermen who claimed that dikes shut out the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"In 1883 Burnham & Morrill and other companies canned and shipped 3,000 to 8,000 bushels of clams. Burnham & Morrill moved its clam packing business…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… act allowing existence of the Southgate Diking Company. Scarborough Historical Society Collection: Clamming Thurlow, Bruce."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"A Portland salvage company removed as much cargo and salvageable parts as possible, but local residents scavenged much of the Middleton’s cargo of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"The first tidal lobster pound was introduced in Vinalhaven in 1875 and others quickly followed. Lobster pounds were much like smack boats; lobsters…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"Moses Banks’ 1784 survey map became the basis for all marsh lot purchases, work and disputes involving these companies."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"… “An Act to Incorporate the Little River Dyking Company.” Chapter 533, 1871 ------ “An Act to Incorporate the Southgate Dyking Company.” Chapter…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"… of the rails of the Biddeford & Saco Railroad Company to those of the Portland Railroad Company.(2) Scarborough would have trolley service at last…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"McCann and Sons, a company that built fire trucks. The company was founded in Portland in 1872, and at one time was only one of seven such companies…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… when the rails of the Biddeford and Saco Railroad Company were finally connected to those of the Portland Railroad Company, connecting South…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"… the Council for New England had granted several companies portions of the same territory from the Piscataqua to the Penobscot."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"However, diking and development of roads and rail lines across the marsh negatively impacted the marsh, destroying soils and natural vegetation."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"The railroad company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Eastern Railroad, was the first link between Portland and Boston and points south."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"… generation descendant of Plymouth Governor Edward Winslow and a large shareholder in the Plymouth Company."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"He married Elizabeth Winslow of Farmington in Boston, Massachusetts in 1850, and worked as a brick mason in Saco, Bowdoinham, and Freeman."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"Winslow. Willard moved to Presque Isle at the age of 16 and went to work for P.H. Phair in the lumber and starch business where he toiled for 30…"