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These sites were created for each contributing partner or as part of collaborative community projects through Maine Memory. Learn about collaborative projects on MMN.
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Overview
"Project Overview In June of 2008, the community partnership of the Sagadahoc History & Genealogy Room at the Patten Free Library, the Bath…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station
"The Railroad Station X Text by Michael Armstrong, Alexis Judkins, Emily Love, and Otto Werwaiss 7th grade students at Bath Middle School Images…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty
"Dreamland and Liberty Text by Frazier Metcalf and Deion Osmond 7th grade students from Bath Middle School Images from the Patten Free Library Where…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome
"Welcome X X What do you get when you combine local history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row
"Merchants' Row Text by Dakota Elwell, Danyelle Layton, and Molly Turner 7th graders at Bath Middle School With images from the Patten Free Library…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block
"Lincoln Block Text by Isla Brazier, Brody Losier, Haley Scott, and Brianna Swain 7th grade students at Bath Middle School With images from the…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block
"Ledyard Block Text by Nathanial Barter, Devyn Pushard, and Sheridan Valure 7th grade students at Bath Middle School With images from the Patten Free…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House
"The Customs House Text by Kimberly Mathews, Charles Mills, Courtney Mitchell, and Ashley Rusaw 7th grade students at Bath Middle School Images from…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block
"Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block Text by Alex Anderson, Justin Collander, Dylan Crowell, Matt Nelson, and Lauren Quimby 7th grade students at…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome
"Welcome What do you get when you combine Bath history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath Middle School…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall
"Davenport Memorial and City Hall Text by Rebecca Black, Christie Duffy, Courtney McKinney, and Brook Mitchell 7th grade students at Bath Middle…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians
"Hamlin was well-respected in the world of politics and had become very successful. He gave the small, quiet, and less-prominent state of Maine a…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware
"My uncle also used to go to meetings about politics. He still does, but only sometimes. He goes too far and gets really annoying when all he talks…"
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"… their own hands, declaring in their own “Leagual Town Meeting” that the (still unincorporated) town would assume the power to revoke grants to…"
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Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement
"… Society provide a unique insight into the social, political and cultural issues which were of interest to the people of Maine in the early 19th…"
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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry
"… home of hundreds.” Despite occasional economic, political, and cultural differences throughout the past century, this coastal town's diligent…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Further Reading Akagi, Roy Hidemichi. The Town Proprietors of the New England Colonies: A Study of Their Development, Organization, Activities and…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - People
"… the founders of the Farmington Academy (also see political leader below) W. G. Mallett ??-1942: Principal of Farmington State Normal School (now…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"It also includes municipal records for towns settled by the company, most notably Brunswick, Maine, with warrants and reports."
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"… least one major shareholder and the company clerk, made most of the decisions about managing the new, unincorporated towns on proprietary lands."
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"… as an agent for the company in their first town, present-day Dresden. At times, company agents clashed with their employers, disobeying directives…"
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"… Place Names and Continuance Plan for towns along the Androscoggin River, ca. 1760Maine Historical Society Similarly, some of the maps…"
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"… commission officials like Pagan, established the town of St. Andrews on an important Passamaquoddy site in 1783."