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Site Pages
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Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"
"In recent years, the cleaned-up river has attracted a new type of industry. Tourists flock to the river in greater numbers each year to enjoy the…"
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons
"He brought those buttons to Mazie for her to clean, sort, and organize. She piled all her findings in a simple shopping bag."
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Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2
"… the stores has been closed, and none...have been cleaned out of foodstuffs.” Two dealers S.B. Stuart & Co. and the Columbian Packing Co."
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Lubec, Maine - A Signature Quilt
"Leave cleaning, restoration and repair to historic textile experts. Store it unfolded or preferably rolled in archival paper and box."
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Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 1 of 3
"… which was an old chicken house that was never cleaned out. Luckily they were in there because lightning had struck the backstop."
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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 1 of 3
"… of going into a home making a room surgically clean; preparing a patient for operation, even for abdominal surgery; administering ether anesthesia…"
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"… and recent legislative victories during 2021-2022 supporting Passamaquoddy clean water and Wabanaki economic interests in the gaming industry."
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2
"… were taken to the morgue as the fire department cleaned up the street. G-men captured Dalhover without a fight. He was taken to Bangor City Hall."
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War
"Because of the lack of very clean drinking water and proper food supply, many people starved or died from disease."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4
"… place of worship and now it was time to make a clean break in town administration, too. In a petition to the newly-minted Maine Legislature, 176…"
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Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4
"… born and raised in Rumford, to enact the 1972 Clean Water Act at the federal level. Interior of Congregational Church, Rumford Point…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5
"… new steps, removing brush, and uprighting and cleaning old stones. The town was very grateful for the many hours volunteers spent on this old piece…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - About This Project
"The scrapbook covers were replaced and necessary cleaning and repairs made to many pages, especially in the scrapbooks."
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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3
"We had to keep the rooms clean. We were like the housekeepers, as well. We dusted all the windows. We washed all the floors…We did work hard."
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Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence
"… are remarkable with 80% of the women remaining clean and sober, with a 95% success rate for reunification of mother and child/children."
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine
"Whatever they would catch, the woman would skin clean and prepare. In the winter hunting became less popular because of the coldness."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born
"Spring Cleaning at Hilltop House, Asticou, Northeast Harbor Maine, 1933Northeast Harbor Library The Big Barn, Asticou Way, Northeast Harbor…"
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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area
"… of the water was frozen, so there was no way to clean themselves. They made sweat baths or lodges, by heating stones in a cold lodge until very…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School
"… State took the property by Eminent Domain, it was cleaned up and Rollo Pond was dredged. Soon a new learning center would be built and named for…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park
"… donate a Civil War Monument to the park if it was cleaned up and the bandstand was removed. The cleanup began."
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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3
"… other community members worked long and hard to clean up and regroup. In 1988, the name again changed, this time to Guilford of Maine, Inc."
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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2
"Every morning you had to clean your kerosene lamps in the morning because by 4 o’clock it was going to be dark."
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Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present
"… together as always, focusing on the necessary, cleaning up the aftermath, repairing and rebuilding. We were still in a boom despite the setback."