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Maine Irish Heritage Center

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 5, pages 77-96

"… Lincoln's assassination and changes in Bangor dominate this section of the Scrap & Sketch Book. Martin is increasingly upset at crime in Bangor --…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century

"… the War years, the emergence of youth culture dominated fashions. Understandably, a shrinking percentage of shoppers retained a preference for more…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"Farmland dominated the rural area to the village’s west. The combination of agriculture and industry permitted Hampden to thrive."

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3

"This supplanted heretofore dominant French male silk and velvet fashions, suitable only for languid court life."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times

"However, beginning in the 1840s Bangor gained dominance. Hampden became the place to go for social activities such as Riverside Park."

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1870 to 1900

"… suitable to wear with large skirts or bustles dominated women's outerwear in the earlier part of this period."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 1 of 3

"… where personal preferences prevailed over any dominant "in look." There were mini and maxi skirts, tailored pant suits and pants worn with any type…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3

"… industries at a time when it was overwhelmingly dominated by men. She was and continues to be a source of inspiration for women anglers, hunters…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Brick commercial blocks at the right are dominated by the new Mussey’s Row near the corner of Temple Street."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"The New Englanders’ ambitions to dominate the Dawnland frontier gained imperial backing in 1691, when a royal charter allowed the government at…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… of Mexico and its struggle to be free of Spanish domination. The boundaries were Webb River on the east, northerly by the line separating Mexico…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"… late 1700s, various political grievances began to dominate the growing debate. On the coast, commercial traders felt bound to Massachusetts because…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… the more formal Colonial Revival style came to dominate his work. Both the Shingle Style and the Colonial Revival are represented in the designs…"

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"Dominic Hewes How did the Stanislaus family impact or relate to my life? One way this connects to my life is, I’m 1/8 Native American and so is my…"

Skowhegan History House

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… economy of the western foothills has always been dominated by its forest products. Even today this is true for the nine towns of the Androscoggin…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"In the River Valley towns, the NewPage paper mill dominates the economy. While the mill’s payroll is less than half of what it was 40 years ago, it…"

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"… British-ruled Ireland at the time, Protestants dominated the upper classes and monopolized virtually all of the land.) Mary Catherine McAuley…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… Originally, the Congregational Church was the dominant church of Puritan New England, but after the mid-1750s, new denominations began to appear."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Salt spray and dominating fog wreaked severe deterioration within twenty years. A second lighthouse of rubble masonry took over in 1831, the hastily…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… of the youngsters who would go on to play the dominant basketball of the 1970’s. During the period that John Shaw coached the Rumford Panthers…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"The Sagadahock House dominated the street because it was the largest building. Later in July of 1859, the columns on the front of the building were…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… of republicanism, a school of thought that dominated the Northeast in the first half of the nineteenth century."