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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"… as he accepted a professorship in western New York. George M. Gage, one of the Principal's assistants in the School's first year, succeeded Mr."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"An Engineers Recollections. New York : McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., c1936 Webster, Natalie; Manager, Media Relations, American Society of Civil…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"After the death of his wife, Jacob moved to New York and his brother, Samuel P Abbott took over Little Blue, and opened it as a school for boys in…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"In a letter written by Clementine to Mrs. York and donated to the Farmington Historical Society by Ellen Greer, Clementine shares her thoughts on…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… acts contracted through Boston and New York agencies that included singing and dancing comedians, musical comedies, acrobats, comic opera, trick…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"Lillian Whitmarsh of New York made the town a present of her stone summer residence to be remodeled and used as a consolidated school."

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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… an office in the Empire State Building in New York City to further market the ever increasing fabric offerings."

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

"… Traveling in a snowstorm from Portland to New York on 14 January 1934, the Eastern Steamship Company’s freighter Sagamore punctured its hull when…"

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

"Rufus represented New York in the United States Senate; and as a senator, worked on the Missouri Compromise that permitted Maine to enter the Union…"

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… he operated at Newbury Neck came from Boston, New York and other ports in ships which Coggins owned."

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… attention with coverage on CBS news, in the New York Times, People Magazine, Opera News, and the Boston Globe."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… New Hampshire, Vermont, and Northern New York, which included the Rumford Falls Paper Company."

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

"… Cerberus Capital Management L.P., a private New York-based investment firm. The paper mill has existed for over a hundred years."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. As upset as he was with the "negative" changes in society and especially their effects on his…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… American Railroad, which was intended to link New York with Canada and, via ships, to Europe. It would be the final step in the transcontinental…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… products to markets in Portland, Boston, New York and beyond. Several generations of Dolloffs used the premises primarily as a dairy farm."

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Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… the Great Fires of 1947, a series of blazes from York County to Mount Desert Island hit Maine during an extremely dry autumn."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Abenakis.” (The Sandy River & Its Valley, Vincent York) Although the early Indian settlements were largely uninhabited by the time the first white…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… Industry Julius Wolff, a food broker from New York, arrived on the shores of Passamaquoddy Bay in 1875 attracted by the abundance of small herring…"

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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"What inspired New York investors to come there was a well-established and well-known fishery involving harvesting herring for smoking and pickling."

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial Field Book. New York: Harper Brothers, 1896. Print. Scott, Geraldin Tidd."

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

"… married Melinda Carlton and farmed in New York and Avon and in Freeman. He enlisted from Freeman as a Sergeant in the Company D 28th Maine Infantry…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… the journey from Maine and down into New York in a letter to his father back home. Once in Washington, the 1st Maine performed guard duty in…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"After the death of his wife, Jacob moved to New York and his brother, Samuel P Abbott took over Little Blue, and opened it as a school for boys in…"