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

"… of Much Grass" Sources Dunstan River X Acts and Resolves of the Legislature of Maine. ------“An Act to Establish a Corporation for the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - History Detectives

"… island artifacts, play games, work on exhibits, act out historical scenes, and learn from local historians."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"… and led to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980. A Conference between Wabanaki Leaders and Governor Belcher, July 1732Maine…"

Historic Hallowell - Dr. John Hubbard

"… Free Library Doctor Hubbard's most notable act as Governor was to sign the "Maine Law"-An Act for the Suppression of Drinking Houses and Tippling…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Schools

"On August 31, 1791, the act for the incorporation and endowment of an Academy at Hallowell Hook was signed by Governor Hancock."

Blue Hill, Maine - Looking for the Lost Cemetery

"… one Day for to fense in A Burying Place, and to act on aney other afairs that May Be thought Proper."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 7 of 7

"… Massachusetts General Court passed the Betterment Act, finding that the speculators would have to compensate residents for the value of “improved”…"

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

"Scarborough Town hall X Bibliography Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts."

Fryeburg Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Division of MDI Begins

"… 1796 the legislature of Massachusetts passed an act dividing the town of Mount Desert into two towns and incorporating Eden as a separate town."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Wharf, Store and Blacksmith Shop

"Vose was in Thomaston as early as 1787, and acted as Knox’s agent while he was building Montpelier, so the two men had a long standing work…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor During the 1940s

"… Food Sales, rationing, buying war bonds, and acting as civil soldiers. By 1942, what was once Bangor Municipal Airport became Dow Air Force Base…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Shipbuilding in Biddeford: Lore, Leaders, and Legacy

"During the first Congress in 1789 “An Act to regulate the Collection of Duties Imposed by law on the tonnage of Ships or vessels, and on goods, wares…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Theater

"Children acting in "Tom Thumb's Wedding," Swan's Island, ca. 1950Swan's Island Historical Society Islanders aren't sure when or why the "Tom Thumb"…"

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

"Maine Historical Society The "Act for Registering and Clearing Vessels, Regulating the Coasting Trade, and for Other Purposes" (often shortened to…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"The 1924 National Origins Act, which restricted European immigration and prohibited Asian immigration, was the result of several decades of debate…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"… already been run out of the colony by the Stamp Act unrest, and only then as a pointed rebuke to Massachusetts’ increasingly unruly politicians."

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"Values and Charity In Hallowell, acting on one’s ideals and beliefs has always been regarded not simply as desirable, but necessary."

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

"The Act was an attempt to stop foreign exports and imports, intended to punish the British and French and to force them to respect the authority of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"… it is a resting place for migrating birds; and it acts as a filter or sponge for both the salt and freshwater meeting within it."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… of the State of Maine, 1821 Chapter CXXII, An Act ascertaining what shall consitute the legal settlement; and providing for the Relief and Support…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Olof Nylander, 1864-1943

"… universities to do this same type of work or to act as a guide. Outside Nylander Museum X Nylander was awarded an Honorary Master of Science…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… diversity of the area and eventually he took his act far beyond Mount Desert Island, performing across the region and on Broadway."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… also hosted plays, offering vaudeville between acts. The Park Theatre opened in Southwest in 1919, and soon, even Somesville was showing movies…"