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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 2 of 2

"Eventually, the museum expanded to four rooms of exhibits; but, a few years later, the town decided to demolish the building to make way for a senior…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… Micheal Stinson 7th grade students at Bath Middle School Images from the Patten Free Library There have been many different buildings, businesses…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"Working his way up, he owned Webber’s Drugstore through the time span of 1912-1933. He was a school board member, and a Captain of the Third Maine…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… brought world events into everyone's living room: the assassination of President Kennedy; the civil rights movement; the equal rights movement for…"

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Byron Historical Society

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Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"Public dining rooms and kitchens were in the basement. Masonic Hall, Lincoln, 1945Lincoln Historical Society People other than the Masons were…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"… could work at home rather than going to cutting rooms at various locations. It was common to see a clam tray leaning against every fisherman’s…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… children went to the nearby Buxton School, a one room schoolhouse. Skyline Farm Ca. 1900North Yarmouth Historical Society In 1857 Jeremiah…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"… they added an addition that held a new operating room with new equipment, X-Ray treatment room, incubator, kitchen, and laboratory."

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Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"The men that filled the room; the homeless, the jobless, the unfortunate, crowded around the stranger, filled with hope and curiosity."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… of North Road; it was one of eight one room schoolhouses that once existed in town. (Before Yarmouth seceded in 1849, there were eighteen!) These…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"A small four-room school was built behind the other school, then a two-room trailer was added, all to keep up with the growing school population."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"In 1894, both the Kimball School and the six room Central School were built. The Central School burned December 24, 1906, and in 1907 a new school…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… were separate areas for grain and corn storage, a room for weaving and living quarters for hired hands; a milk room for butter making, a pig house…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln House Hotel

"Some people did not have rooms assigned. I think that some people shared rooms. I was busy with the cleaning while they were here."

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South Bristol Historical Society

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Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Theater

"… concession stand, an ice cream parlor, and a pool room. The new movie theater had three owners to start with; Alfred Clay, Will Brown, and Al Reade."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"… high and grew so close to each other there was no room for limbs to sprout for the first eighty feet."

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Kennebec Valley Community College Archive

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Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… or settling other good families in their Room; for the accommodation of Numbers that want Land, and to carry on the Fishery, Humbly request your…"

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Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 1 of 2

"… (what today would be called an Emergency Room), although it would not be open on a 24-hour basis until 1964."

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"… who had been overseer of the Pepperell cloth room and paymaster of the Laconia division. When he died in 1899 he bequeathed $40,000 toward a free…"