Keywords: maritime products
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Site Pages
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Surry by the Bay - About The Project
"About The Project Our team is comprised of Surry Elementary School, the Surry Historical Society, and several Surry residents."
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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry
"History of Surry Surry Historical Society Text written by Lynn Bonsey, with sections adapted from Surry, Maine: An informal History by Osmond…"
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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company
"Surry Opera Company Opera Company's Tenth Anniversary festival schedule, Surry, 1994Surry Historical Society Text by Kate Mrozicki Images…"
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"Became national leader in smoked herring production into 1880s 1824 • Solomon Cushing conducts survey of town of Lubec • Freemasons opened lodge 1830…"
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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"… innovations allowed the centralization of can production in the first decade of the new century."
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries
"However, as mass production took over the industry, particularly from foreign countries where labor wages were much cheaper, netting has become much…"
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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection
"This “Maine-first” policy dealt with Maine products, Maine problems, politics, and people from the typical "man on the street," to the Governor of…"
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Kennebunkport Historical Society
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House
"… Bath Opera House reopening, 1926Maine Maritime Museum In the late 19th and early 20th century, theaters were becoming a new and exciting…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History
"… build them, while Canadians from Quebec and the Maritimes came to labor in them. Google Maps tells us that the distance between Byron and…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington
"Chase Grocery Store, Bath, ca. 1895Maine Maritime Museum Before the drugstore, a well-respected grocery store owned by Hiram L."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row
"106-118 Front Street, Bath, ca. 1950Maine Maritime Museum The building that houses Wilson's Drug Store was built after the fire in 1837 and was…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4
"The late nineteenth-century decline of Maine’s maritime industry was the most poignant feature of the novels of Blue Hill-born Mary Ellen Chase."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"While the mission of the institution concentrates on the maritime heritage and culture of the state, the pioneers who founded MMM and the resulting…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"… economic difficulty to a region dependent upon maritime trade. By 1814, the tiny town of Bangor with 850 people had seen its share of hard times."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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