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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"The F.D. Morrill Greenhouse on Walnut Hill Road in North Yarmouth produced carnations and snapdragons that were shipped by rail to markets in Boston…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… upper end of the Asticou Way as well as Asticou Hill Trail. Harbor Cottage served first as family homestead for A.C."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… field to the adjacent harbor and views of Asticou Hill, was saved. Again, Charles's aesthetic prevailed."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… David built his own cottage within the quiet hills of Seal Harbor. Ringing Point, as it is called, was constructed upon the property of the former…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… Somesville to Southwest Harbor, by way of Beech Hill. Everyone cleared land and planted fruit trees and grew vegetables. They hunted."

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Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"However these streets, atop the hill, do not all meet at a common junction. The otherwise unidentified photo below was taken at Church and Main, and…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"Hill, who brought the sport back from Cornell University. Walter Murtaugh was a very important member of the Alameda's Roller Polo team; he was a…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"… Oaks, Gaines Mill, White Oak Swamp, and Malvern Hill before the next surviving letter. A note accompanying two buttons sent home says “The S.C."

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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… war (only fifty-five names were actually carved into the monument). A stone marks his grave next to his parents at Oak Hill Cemetery in Brewer."

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Lincoln, Maine - Mattanawcook Academy

"… acres of land overlooking the Penobscot River on Hill Crest, the new Mattanawcook Academy was built."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"… that shallow grave on Burnt Knoll, that pasture has been called “Murder Field”, on what is now known as Burbank Hill. Return to Student Research"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"… the railroad station at the base of Norton Hill. Lucky residents might collect a box of fresh bananas and oranges in midwinter, along with their…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"Ossie Hill described working as a label boy in the printing department. Every kind of paper bag called for was produced: from the tiny bag in which a…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… for the family at affordable rates, a tubing hill for the non-skier, and a modern, up-to-date lodge for dining and après-ski events."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… the latter category: Why is there a Buckfield Hill in Byron? What’s the story of the Buckfield and Rumford Falls Railroad, or all those stagecoach…"

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Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"… River to the east (and a non-existent range of hills to the north).Maine Historical Society Still, separationists schemed new ways to rally…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990) Angela Tozer, “Democracy in a Settler State? Settler…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… of Route 4 North (Main Street) and Box Shop Hill Road. His home is one of many that was built prior to 1800 and still stands as a testament to the…"

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"Some of the schools include Lind Hill School, a school above the Lutheran Church, primary grades Brown School, and the High School."

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

"… across from the Inn to northward as far as Forest Hill Cemetery, came into the joint ownership of Mame and her two surviving brothers, Richard M."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… side of Harbor Cottage and relocated down the hill and northwest behind the horseshoe road of Asticou Way along present day Rye Field Lane."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"1900Northeast Harbor Library Percy Hill had a jewelry and optical shop and his wife millinery shop next door."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… the length of Main Street to the top of Abbott Hill. The flames took the buildings on lower Broadway then headed south on the west side on Main…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"… brick building that once stood alone on Academy Hill. In 1903 and 1904, new desks were placed in the rooms and a furnace and electric lights were…"