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Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays

"… state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Boundary between United States and New Brunswick, undatedMaine Historical Society…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Transportation

"John River in Durham boats. In the 1830's the Military Road was built from Bangor to Houlton and later to points north."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"Soon the Brunswick Hand Tubs were there to help. The fire destroyed everything all the way North to Hoopers Grocery Store."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"Many of those tourists use the restored train station in Bath. The restored station is also a welcoming center for tourists traveling the coast on…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… spent the next half century struggling with Brunswick and Topsham residents who squatted on unsold land, stalled on payments, or helped themselves…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) and New Brunswick moved the aboriginal people inland.” Just behind the Mall along the riverbank stone tools…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Canadian and Pacific Railroad

"The railroad agreed to bring a spur to Presque Isle providing the citizens paid for the rail to be laid."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"In 1881, the New Brunswick Railway System (later known as the Canadian Pacific Railroad) steamed into town allowing for starch to be shipped south…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad saw this as a threat to business and expanded their lines through Washburn, Mapleton, Perham, Woodland, New Sweden…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"There was a special law on the books of the State of Maine entitled “an Act of aid of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad”."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"After four seasons of racing, he started in 68 races and won 31 of those. During this period, he earned the nickname of “The Iron Horse from…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"The large terrain involved in determining the northeastern border stretched from islands in Passamaquoddy Bay in the east, to identifying the actual…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"… Boundary between United States and New Brunswick, undatedMaine Historical Society Unsurprisingly, jurisdictional questions continued to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"… (1716), Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick: Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, collection 61, vol. 1, p. 81-83, Maine Historical Society."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"Robert Kinney's Land on the Plains, and hinder any Person from Lumbering or Tresspassing" These letters were given to many settlers on disputed land…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"For example, in 1604, Passamaquoddy Bay was the site of one of the first French overwintering settlements in the Americas under an expedition led by…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"… original Pejepscot Proprietors quickly founded Brunswick and Topsham, and spent the next few decades struggling to recruit settler-colonialists…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… as those in the new sovereign polities of New Brunswick, Upper and Lower Canada, which were fused as the Province of Canada in 1841 (previously…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"… Massachusetts stopped and Nova Scotia (soon New Brunswick) began was still an open question, one that was not even solved by identifying the Saint…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"He was responsible for the upkeep of the Wells-Brunswick road and helped transport soldiers to the Brunswick fort."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"The collection contains a wide variety of unexpected yet related documents, such as “Indian captivity” depositions; documents pertaining to the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"60), the Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick papers—referred to as the Pejepscot Proprietors (Coll."

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

"The costs to raise and support the surveying teams in their field efforts were extreme and more than four boxes of the Barclay Collection includes…"