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John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"… spectacular economic, population, and geographic growth. As the society grew and changed, so did social dancing."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… Chidsey, “The Old Boston Post Roads,” National Geographic (May 1962). 4. See note 2 above. 5. August F."

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The village was the geographic center with a state road running through its center featuring a town hall, grange hall, two stores, churches, a…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… the state, and when we consider the extent of its geographical area, the fertility of it soil, its varied mechanical industries, its mercantile and…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… Bangor's natural physical attributes and geographical qualities. No doubt the Portuguese explorer Estevao Gomes in 1525 and perhaps before him, the…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… and neighborliness; met the challenges posed by geographic isolation, a sometimes harsh environment, and the vagaries of a fisheries-based economy."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… was decided to build the town house here at the geographical center of North Yarmouth. For several years in the mid 1940s, North Yarmouth students…"

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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