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Site Pages
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park
"Opened to an eagerly awaiting public in June 1898, at the peak of America’s “Gilded Age,” Riverside Park offered a dizzying array of entertainment."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert
"Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings on Wheels Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 4 of 4
"… opened on September 28, 1868 and held its first public graduation of six students in 1880. The town supported Greely Institute over the years and…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3
"… of the Maine Woodsman and Phillips Phonograph publications. Much of their Fly Rod Crosby collection, as well as items from the Outdoor Sporting…"
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"… Eastport and Lubec 1884 • The Lubec Herald begins publication 1889 • Torrent Fire Co. founded by F.M."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru
"As with all public roads, the cost of the care of this road began to rise. By 1816 the plantation settlers raised $600 in taxes for the road."
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The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village
"… road was built and now the old road is closed to public traffic and the area is privately owned. The West Village area has had a long and…"
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Blake Library Special Collections, UMFK
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Westport Island History Committee
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Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence
"… of educational and employment resources, public transportation, and social services. She settled on two centers of need which appeared to have the…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication
"Somesville also had the island's first public house. Somes Tavern had been opened in 1831 by Abraham Somes's grandson Daniel."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History
"… space includes a network of trails open to the public for non-motorized use. Loring Family Settlement: 1781 – 1876 In the latter part of the…"
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Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2
"… The bandstand, a prime gathering place for the public in an era larded with local musical organizations, stood at Main and Pleasant Streets, as…"
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"The most public of their many collaborations resulted in the expansion of the Asticou Terraces Trust to include another 100 acres on Eliot Mountain…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"… in all its details: the architecture of Maine's public library buildings, 1878-1942 by Kirk F. Mohney A short history of Cumberland libraries by…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women
"… Harris May poetry collection, 1903Farmington Public Library Return to Student Research The May Sisters, Julia and Sara Julia Harris May was born…"
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Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay
"… the Surry Playhouse to the summer theater-going public of coastal Hancock County. Just months before the start of the Great Depression, a group of…"
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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry
"… land in western parts of Hancock County went to public auction, where it was purchased by Jarvis and his brother, Phillip, who became among the…"
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Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy
"In 1837, the following was added to their public vows: “and the care of the poor, the sick, and the ignorant.” In addition, the “Mercy Rule” which…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"In 1739 the laying out of a public highway from Falmouth through North Yarmouth to Brunswick was ordered."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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"… come together to provide assets such as a public library, community playground, the Regional Medical Center and school improvements."