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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 3 of 5

"… Chiputneticook Lakes, which would be the starting point for vexing questions about the interior route for decades to come."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… newcomer William King, who built a home on Shaw’s Point and later the Bath Bank building, the first brick structure on the Point, on the southwest…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… south to serve in the US military at some point during the war. Fred Titcomb's horses, load of hay, Falmouth Corner, early 1900sNorth Yarmouth…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… project was running extremely smoothly by this point. He had installed all the modifications that needed to be done to get the operation going and…"

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Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"… to Eastport to gain passage to Boston and other points. Due to Eastport’s connection to Boston the town had the best stocked stores in the county."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"When they were built, the main architectural points of this style were simplicity and symmetry. Front Street postcard, Bath, ca."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… them from flanking us, which he was on the point of doing when we arrived. After accomplishing this, which we did very handsomely, we went around…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… about a fair from the different characters' points of view. What most people don’t know is that the fair described in the book is the Blue Hill…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"… first half of the 20th Century and reached a low point of 1270 in 1960. Summer residents were one of the biggest employers in town in the early…"

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Caribou Public Library

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… and multi-piano performances, and at some point everyone joining together for a rousing Mozart chorus or two."

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Acadian Archives

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"Draper said of her work: "I never try to point morals in my monologues; yet I believe the material has got to be something more than a mere…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"… championship, beating Bar Harbor High by two points in the playoffs along the way. Because they lost so many key players to graduation, 1958 was…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"… an end with an outcome of 59-49, Hampden up by 10 points. Now both teams had finally won championships! Spectators came streaming onto the court…"

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… District of Passamaquoddy, office at Flagg’s Point (Lubec) • John Allan settles on Treat’s Island (Allan’s Island) 1790 • John Cooper, acting as…"

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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"Arrow drawn on photo points to Jernegan. Photo donated by Edith Comstock.Lubec Memorial Library Why were so many people willing to invest their life…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… had actually begun in the Ryder's Cove and Hewes Point settlements some twenty years earlier. As the island filled with summer residents, many…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"The intersection still acts as the point of parting; to the east lies Woolwich, to the south Phippsburg, to the west, West Bath and Brunswick, and…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"However, at one point Bangor also had what was called the Bangor Plan, which allowed hotels and such to serve alcohol if they went to court and paid…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… for the first time from Bangor to Portland, and points south. On November 1, 1856 the Waterville to Bangor line was leased to and operated by the…"

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Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"At this point on the river were located the mills of the Piscataquis Woolen Company and the M. L. Hussey Woolen Company."

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

"At this point, a couple of other Loring family members owned Skyline Farm. By 1870, Jeremiah’s son Charles Richmond (C.R.) Loring, who lived in…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… built in 1937 and enlarged in 1950 at a focal point in West Peru. This school held up to 244 students in grades K-8, with high school students…"