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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"Measuring Rock The Measuring Rock Story In 1776, at the encouragement of Thomas Wilson, Stephen Titcomb and four other residents of Topsham, Maine…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Places

"… Brick Inn Farmington's First Grist Mill Franklin County Agricultural Fair Lowell's General Store Measuring Rock Meeting House Park North Church"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family Business

"Grey Rock Inn Owned by family member Emily Phillips Kenney Reynolds from 1927-1979. Rock End Hotel Owned by family members Herman LaFritz Savage…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"… the water, the great river crashing to granite rock, white water exploding from granite rock – unbelievable, the power of life! Tom Fallon Sources…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Minturn Schoolhouse

"A former student recalls: "Yep, and ‘course the stuff used to run right down the rocks and everything and in the wintertime we’d slide down it."

Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Hallowell Granite

"… and who were the movers, shakers, and hard rock breakers? Communities grow where nature provides raw materials and the ready access to…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Index

"… - Agriculture, Places Maps - Main Page Measuring Rock - Brief History, Places Meeting House Park - Places North Church - Places People - Main Page…"

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Student Narrative of MDI History

"… of which we just escaped being lost on a little rock on a level with the water, which made an opening in our barque near the keel."

Historic Hallowell - The Boston Flint Company

"1910Hubbard Free Library Flint was a rock made of micro crystalline quartz. It was not harder than quartz but it was tougher, so its sharp edges…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"Occasionally, a rock would embed between the lags while the digger is working, causing the lags to come apart."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"Ridlonvlle Memorial Rock, Mexico, 2006Mexico Historical Society Sources Remembering Ridlonville, Beverly Melanson Rumford Falls Times Society…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 13 of 13

"Workers make sure the potatoes and rocks are separated. A conveyors dumps the potatoes directly into a bulk body truck No more barrels, no more…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 2 of 13

"… would dig into the row and throw the potatoes and rocks off to the side. A person would not want to be in the way."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - "Good the more communicated, the more abundant grows" : The Thursday Club

"… more abundant grows" : The Thursday Club "Rocking Chair Row" program, Biddeford, 1930Biddeford Historical Society The club, from the…"

Surry by the Bay - Resources

"Jellison, Connee. Hancock County a rock-bound paradise: A Bicentennial Pictorial. The Downing Company Publishers, 1990. Platt, David D."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ada Martin, Bangor, 1865

"… favoured hobby sitting by a window all alone in a rocking chair her foot on another chair reading." View additional information about this item…"

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

"The crew was saved, but within a few days the 100-ton schooner was pounded to pieces on the rocks. Cappy The Cappy at Pine Point, Scarborough…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"Slate, a rock formed from shale and mined by quarrying, had low heat and not very much pressure put on it."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair

"… horses, poultry-best pen Americans: Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes, swine-registered boar, registered sheep-Merino ram, speed-trotters, pacers."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2

"… farmed with horses that would pull big drags with rocks piled on it. The drag would make flat paths. That looked like little roads."

St. Croix Historical Society

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4

"Louis. The emergent youth culture, with its rock & roll and pop music, and move towards less formal dress stimulated growth of a new branch of the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… Hike a woodland trail? Tramp across the mudflats? Rocking on the seaside ledges? Investigate tidal pools or coastal caverns? Boat the bays or lakes…"