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Site Pages
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Old Orchard Beach Historical Society
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)
"… of the year in a large 3,200 sq ft, 5-bedroom, 3-bath, shingle-styled, two-story home designed by his uncle, Fred Savage, which is still located at…"
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Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century
"Still others went to work in shipyards in Bath and South Portland and to other states. With a population of approximately 500, Surry contributed…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement
"Climena’s family came from Bath, Maine. Her father William Roberts, a carpenter, settled first in Seal Harbor, and later along the eastern shore of…"
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"In William A. Bakers book, “A Maritime History of Bath, Maine, and the Kennebec River Region” he writes that in 1851, Captain Job Pierce, who was an…"
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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Early Maine Photography - Occupational
"… contains eight such images from Bangor, Bath, Harpswell, Skowhegan, and Vinalhaven. Man wearing Masonic regalia, ca."
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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3
"Governor William King William King, Bath, ca. 1845Maine Historical Society Born in Scarborough in 1768, William King received only a grammar…"
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Maine's Road to Statehood - Turn of the Century to the War of 1812
"… necessary at the moment.[20] William King, Bath, ca. 1806 William King became a prominent figure in 19th century Maine separation politics…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"Draper's claim northeast of Bath, 1795Maine Historical Society In 2020, Maine Historical Society (MHS) was awarded a nearly $350K National Endowment…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War
"… Branch, was the only water supply for drinking, bathing, and washing clothes. Because of the lack of very clean drinking water and proper food…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4
"Lipfert. Lobstering and the Maine Coast . Bath, ME: Maine Maritime Museum, 1985. Milliken, John, et al."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties
"… produce the steel for the ships and engines, and Bath emerged as the only Maine shipbuilding center to successfully make the transition from wooden…"
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Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu
"In neighboring towns like Bath, people tagged their houses with white cards or red letters warning people not to enter due to infected residents…"
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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3
"This daguerreotype of Parker Cleaveland is similar to one in the Vickery-Shettleworth Collection by Benjamin F. Upton of Bath."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born
"… house, Hilltop, a 3,700 square foot, 5-bedroom, 2-bath home located directly across from the Asticou Inn, which had been designed, built, and…"
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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area
"They made sweat baths or lodges, by heating stones in a cold lodge until very hot, and then cooling them to create steam."
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland
"Sometime in the winter of 1841 the cables came to Bath, Maine. That spring they were loaded on a schooner for Hallowell. Col."
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"Built in Bath, Maine in 1885 the Cumberland’s fate was a tragic one. The vessel continued its tri-weekly service to and from Boston until July 7…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury
"Third, he could bathe in the rivers since it was moving water and the lakes provided fresh water. Another reason Aaron might have moved here was…"
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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations
"… legislators including those from Woolwich and Bath, towns near Malaga, and Phippsburg, the home of Malaga."
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"… of pleasant summer houses.” Front page, Bath Independent and Enterprise, 1903. In this context, the Malaga mixed-race community was viewed as a…"
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Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community
"… report what color hair they had or what color bathing suit they wore.” Upon its founding, Mercy Hospital represented one of the largest visible…"
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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"… the cans in another section of the cannery, “bathing” the sealed cans in boiling water, and finally testing the cans for leaks, all work carried…"