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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Six to eight canneries operated in Farmington Falls, Farmington and West Farmington. There are still remnants of the buildings that once provided…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… the group that controlled the Aroostook Falls in New Brunswick. There was a special law on the books of the State of Maine entitled “an Act of aid…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"Meductic, Tobique, and Grand Falls were such large village sites, with Madawaska another that occurred above the salmon run."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"In the fall of 1761, Abraham Somes arrived on Mount Desert Island, looking for a place to settle. Like all immigrants he wanted a better life."

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"… the rights to the stream after another economic fall during The Great Depression. After this, large industrial companies, such as mills, began to…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"Students in EDU 221 in fall 2008 converted the color print brochure to this digital version of the Arboretum Trail."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… canoe connection. At Farmington Falls, the Indian Village of Amascontee, ‘plenty of ale-wives’ was an easy canoe trip from Norridgewock on the…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"… the gills would harden, preventing herring from falling off the sticks. Fires needed to be lit, allowed to die, sticks moved up, fires lit again…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"More on canning sardines in Lubec. Rise and Fall Lubec’s population rose to 3,363 by 1910. American Can Company built a plant for the manufacture of…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"Falling telephone and electrical wires hampered his rescue, and Scribner died at the scene. State Street ruins, Bangor, 1911Bangor Public…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830-1890, 1996. Rowe, W.H. The Maritime History of Maine: Three Centuries of…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… on Mill Island at what is now near the reversing falls. John Roundy was 36 and Capt. Joseph Wood was 42 when they came to this coastal land whose…"

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"… to take a trip to Solomon’s Store?” When the fall comes, the children save up their money from the summer and they go to the Solomon’s Store to buy…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… most lobsters are caught in late summer and fall when they migrate closer to shore areas to molt."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… in 1930,” Maine Historical Society Quarterly 25 (Fall 1985): 58-87. Packard, Leonard O. "The decrease of population along the coast of Maine,"…"

Maine State Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… was flooded; the Morse bridge, the steel Rumford Falls Bridge, the Rangeley Lakes Railroad bridge, and the Ridlonville bridge were washed away."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"Harlow, Rumford Falls Times, February 15, 1940. "Mayor Park of Mexico Corner, Etched by a Globe Man," Boston Daily Globe, Sunday, July 20, 1890…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"Rumford Falls, Buckfield Railroad, ca. 1870Maine Historical Society From the beginning, the RSU has endeavored to forge cohesion among its far-flung…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… as a ghost to its former glory, unused, and falling into disrepair. For many Dixfield citizens, however, the Tuscan Opera House will always…"

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"His sister Alice wrote from Steep Falls, listing the latest deaths in town, lamenting, “Isn’t it awfully bad."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"From 1848 to 1882 he served Unitarian churches in Fall River, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; and Germantown, Pennsylvania."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"This addition, completed in Fall 2012, increased the square footage of living space from 850 square feet to 2,100 square feet."