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Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2
"… 1,119 cars (25 passenger cars, 25 baggage, mail or express cars, 645 box cars, 474 platform cars, and 40 service cars)."
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"… communication occurred by written letter and mail. Travel routes were primarily over the water; there were few and very primitive roads."
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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4
"March 23 1863 Dear Mother Last nights Mail brought the ever welcome letter and the cheering tidings of “all well at home” and thanks to A Kind…"
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Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966
"In May 19, 1938, the First Air Mail arrived at the Hudson farm field. Another flood in March 1936 caused more extensive damage to Guilford’s…"
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Winter Harbor Historical Society
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4
"Horses brought the mail from the train to the post office. Salesmen, stagecoach passengers, and lumbermen were taken to their destinations on…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3
"In 1920 a four-horse coach delivered the mail down river from Rumford, through Mexico, on to Dixfield and Peru."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell
"Sailcloth and old mailing labels addressed to A.C. Savage were used as "insulation" in the eave walls."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4
"… 1998.(3) The Scarborough Beach station provided mail service and goods for the large tourist population that stayed at hotels and inns of…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"… as one of two deputies in charge of the colonial mail system. To overcome colonists’ suspicions that they were being overcharged on postage…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones
"… because we now have telephones, cell phones, e-mail, text, etc. If we did not first have the telegraph, inventors would probably never have had the…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War
"… was a farmer and East North Yarmouth's first mail carrier at the turn of the century. His daughter Charlotte became a schoolteacher and taught for…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village
"… arrangement, our citizens are favored with the mail some half an hour earlier than before. We have made the assertion, and have no fears of making…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle
"… with a growing population made it possible for mail to be delivered to the area in 1842. This growth also led to the building of the first bridge…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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