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Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 3 of 4
"… collection’s finest and widest crinolines is a boat necked short sleeved teal and pink silk plaid with a set of detachable long sleeves, fringed…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce
"… did brisk business, with Roberts building pinkey boats for local fishing and Clement making fish barrels, washtubs and pails."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace
"Did your dad work? He was a boat builder so he had to find some other jobs to help out with money. Were kids affected? I think they all were."
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"… Mount Desert’s families who farmed, fished, built boats, or participated in some of all of the year around occupations, the Savages constructed…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…
"… to make boards, staves, and shingles needed for boats, dwellings, barns, fences, and barrels. They cut hay in the salt marshes and turned ancient…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators
"… Investigate tidal pools or coastal caverns? Boat the bays or lakes (powered by oar, paddle, sail or steam)? Brave an island tour in a buckboard…"
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Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2
"Voice of Miriam Kelley Doherty 2 min 10 sec “The boat was gunwales down, and as she turned on her heel, rolled in the water, and sank beneath…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825
"… Historical Society Early in the century, boat builders built coastal schooners and barges in Warren, north of Thomaston, for transport and trade…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake
"… place at cottages on the lake where swimming, boating, and fishing were easily accessible. Public BeachStrong Historical Society A public…"
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Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families
"… of monitoring and caring for David Rockefeller’s boats and waterfront property soon after this decision."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry
"The Tradition Continues...... Webber's Cove Boat Yard in East Blue Hill, owned and operated by Matt Cousins, 2010."
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Winter Harbor Historical Society
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation
"… recreation, but other people liked to trap and to boat. When settlers first came to Strong there were mostly Indians."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3
"… ropes fashioned to make a raft, or they could be boats, large or small, which could carry men and provisions from one shore to the other."
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Westport Island History Committee
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters
"… as one local put it, “A birch canoe was a good boat if there was an Indian in it.” Passamaquoddy hunting guide Joe Mell, ca. 1895."
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"… masonry contractor, three granite quarries and a boat builder. There were two pharmacies, two barbers, two clothiers, four tailors, six dressmakers…"
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"… ship building to put in between the planks of the boats floor. When they shipped all of the items it would all come from Boston."
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Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive
"Bangor became the lumber capital of the world. boat pulling logs across Moosehead Lake X Logging started with the contractor- he selected the…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857
"… rigging and gear used to work the sails of the boat) were configured and set up by riggers. A ropewalk situated on the eastern bank of Mill…"
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Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2
"The trip was anything but routine and the boat she was on was torpedoed and sunk. Mattie and other survivors spent ten hours in a lifeboat before…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrap & Sketch Book 2: 1864-1866
"… favorite apple tree, Ada Martin gymnastics, gun boat Mahoning, McClellan supporters, ideal homestead, former slave Part 4, pages 57-76…"
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Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines
"Hundreds of trees were knocked down. Also, boats and the Kennebec Yacht Club were endangered. The public utilities were destroyed and repair crews…"