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Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Huntress

"The reason this is true is because he helped make the bricks for the first school ever built in Lincoln."

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

"… would come into Burnt Coat Harbor and collect brick sized cut stone. Quarry rails, Swan's Island, ca."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 74-138

"… Locofoco System of Free Trade Tyler Wasgatt Brick School House Mr. Teague Dancing School William Henry Harrison, Whigs Boman Holman singing school…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 195-277

"… Rufus Prince First Baptist Church Gordon Percival Brick kilns Steamer Bangor Cyrus Goss William Cobb, dancing master Banqor Quartet Club Zachary…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 362-451

"… his business dealings, his plan to build a new brick store, and, eventually, Martin's departure from the business, joining Pendleton & Ross, ship…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Thomas White Dry Good Emporium, Bangor, 1864

"The brick building is captured in a drawing done by John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and shopkeeper who wrote and illustrated a journal…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Lunt House, Cumberland at Center streets, Bangor, ca. 1852

"… by J Robinson to an Irishman and moved to McGaws Brick yard April 6th 1871." The Mrs. Cary to whom he referred was his mother-in-law."

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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3

"… muslin.” And, as the book Agreeable Situations (Brick Store Museum, 1987) records, in about 1800, transfer printed depictions of Portland’s Hannah…"

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Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"… in Hallowell in 1905 and occupied one of the brick buildings belonging to the Kennebec Reality Company."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"The Grant building is brick with a front of granite and limestone in the art deco style. There were 473 Grant stores nationwide."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"It is brick with a granite foundation. Sagadahock National Bank, Bath, ca. 1876 Maine Maritime Museum Before the Lincoln Bank was built in…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"In 1975, a brick extension was added to the east side. The current building is made of brick on a granite foundation and is notable for its granite…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"… logging, lime burning, canals, ship building and brick making all over what was then Lincoln County."

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

"Several businessmen joined together to build the brick Union Block, each constructing their own unit, sharing common walls."

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"Middle Street’s small frame and brick houses and buildings, the domed granite Merchants Exchange, and the Second Parish Church have long vanished…"

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Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"Timbers, bricks, gravel, and tarred paper began to fly around his head as Brown ran to the other end of the mill."

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"Stewart and Samuel Wallace to erect a brick building for the sum of $1125. In the fall of 1843, the school was reopened under the leadership of…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"Other businessmen built brick stores as Bath's downtown began to shift from one largely of wooden buildings to one of brick."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1870 to 1915

"… constructed and presented the Watts Block, a brick building on the southwest corner of Knox and Main Streets, to the town for use by its residents…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"The Carr O’Brien brick building on the opposite corner of Wadsworth Street and Route One, directly adjacent to the prison grounds, was built in 1852…"

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Abel J. Morneault Memorial Library

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The building, known as “The Old Brick Store” was a landmark until it burned in 1915. Crosby’s Federalist style Grist Mill Store dates from 1809…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… had gable roofs and walls made out of granite, brick, terra-cotta, dentil moldings and soldier bricks. Galen Moses and friends, Bath, ca."

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Otisfield Historical Society

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