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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4
"Among them, close to where School Street came down to meet Water Street a bit left of the center of the photograph, was the smokehouse operated at…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 5 of 5
"… resides at the Dixfield Town Office on Main Street. This building was made possible by a large gift from the Torrey family and also houses the…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4
"… and Irish folks in the Spruce Street/Knox Street Penobscot Street areas had the Pettengill School."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty
"Dreamland Theater, Front Street, Bath, ca. 1910Patten Free Library The Dreamland opened in 1909 on 177 Front Street."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block
"He also designed the Winter Street Church on Washington Street in Bath, five years later, and they looked a lot alike."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall
"… Police Department has its own building on Water Street at Elm Street. In the bell tower, there is the 1802 bell that was probably cast by Paul…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943
"… window of Weatherbee's Hardware Store on Main Street during the war. The back of the photo mentions some of the soldiers featured in the display."
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Lincoln, Maine - Post Office, Lincoln, Built in 1856
"… built in 1856 on the corner lot of lower Main Street. David S. Plumly had it built following a fire which destroyed his store in the same location…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties
"… a good position to supply stone for buildings and streets to the growing cities of the Eastern seaboard."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3
"What was known as Trask Street at that time, now Leavitt Street, went all the way to Highland Terrace."
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Lincoln, Maine - W.A. Brown: Jack of all trades
""Will Brown in 50th Year in Business on Main Street." Bangor Daily News (Bangor, Maine) 1954, Lincoln Historical Society ed.: 285-86."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5
"Rev. Mr. Cummings spoke very well. Main Street, Dixfield, ca. 1890Dixfield Historical Society Once these building blocks were put in place…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Eureka Hall, Stockholm
"Work Cited ECHOES: The Northern Maine Journal, Issue No. 17, August 1992, Volume V, Number 3 "Eureka Hall," Anderson, Gordon A., p."
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm
"Other settlers on the road that would become Main Street were Johannes Anderson, Johan Nilsson Lind, A."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3
"… Village on the Trask Road, now known as Leavitt Street. A school building was erected on Roxbury Road and one near Highland Terrace before 1850."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House
"… The Tuscan Opera House, centrally located on Main Street in Dixfield once served as the cultural heart of this river valley civilization."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4
"… first at its ski jump location on Spruce Street, then at its Scotty’s Mountain location on Route 120, and finally at its present facility on Glover…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill
"… in 1846 the group decided to buy a chapel on Main Street. They met there until 1877 when it was sold to a private owner."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - EXPLORE the history of Biddeford, Maine...
"… Public Library South Side of Main Street, Biddeford, 1909McArthur Public Library The trailblazers of the Biddeford Heritage Project."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House
"It had been located at 66 Centre Street since 1913, when construction finished. Before that, the Alameda was there."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse
"… empty lot at the intersection of High and Centre Streets, in 1867, and dedicated on June 3, 1868. The Civil War Monument was dedicated to those who…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5
"… four times--twice to the Dixfield side of Main Street and twice to the Wilton side where it is located in 2013."
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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 1 of 2
"… society was the primary school on School Street. The museum later opened on July 3, 1974. One of the things that has changed is the museum has been…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad and Maine Public Service Building
"… building on the corner of Second and State Streets was built by Gould in 1920 for the purpose of housing these two companies."