Maine Memory Network

Nylander Museum

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L'Heritage Vivant Living Heritage

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Maine State Archives

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Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"… schools, businesses, transportation systems, and the government were disrupted by the ice storm. Written by Steven Guay and Dallis Heflin"

Historic Hallowell - Child Labor

"Today the U.S. government and all of the states in America have enforced laws against child labor. Most other countries have laws against child labor…"

Guilford, Maine - PEOPLE

"Robert Low Jr. sent a paper to the government to see if they could get a warrant to have Guilford be on a map and have it be a legal town."

Friends of Wood Island Light

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Franco-American Collection

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"… homes were later transferred to the federal government. Veterans Memorial, Strong, ca. 1932Strong Historical Society The GAR also had a…"

Early Maine Photography - Art

"… who died in 1844, was active in Gilead’s local government and represented the town in the state legislature."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4

"The Canadian timber holdings were sold to the government; No's. 1 and 3 Paper Machines were shut down as they were not contributing to profits."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… too faced the same dilemma as Bull as the British government withdrew permits given to settle the area until the boundary dispute had been cleared."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"Local government had been organized to conduct the affairs of the colony even before New Sweden became a plantation."

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"… Avery did become a lawyer with a career in government service. (Inexplicably, both the Yearbook and the Commencement Program reproduce his middle…"

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"… 1867, John's widow Laura applied to the federal government for an increase in her widow's pension."

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"… was not the end of Mattie Pinette’s distinguished government career. She was hired as Chief of Employee Development in the newly created Atomic…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… out for up to a year, or "sent unto, employed and governed" in a work house. In many municipalities, the local town farm was established, giving…"

Acadia National Park

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Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"Fannie also received a telegram from the government and was recognized as the beneficiary of his life insurance issued by the United States for…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… as a new state capitol that would bring state government back to Portland from Augusta. When this failed, the Excahnge became the city’s U.S."

Caribou Public Library

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"Settlers were forming their own forms of governance, making do as they did in all other aspects of their lives."

Colby College Special Collections

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"Early Government In 1805, riders brought official papers from Boston to Paris proclaiming the founding of Oxford County, and Paris Hill as the county…"