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St. Croix Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"After joining the US Navy as a Sea Bee during World War II, Donald met and married Marguerite Hodgkins in 1946."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"After World War II, the refrigerators were invented which took on the role of storing and making ice."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"After World War II, the refrigerators were invented which took on the role of storing and making ice."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village Schools

"World War two had a minimizing effect on New Portland's population, as the class sizes tended to go down after those years."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"Woodrow Wilson’s Ship is Torpedoed during World War II: Woodrow Wilson: and we were on the east side of Africa…and we were on our way home…and well…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"… go see the men leave to enlist in the Army during World War I. Amie Rancourt of Mexico went to work in the mill at the age of "not quite 15 years."…"

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 3 of 3

"… became the first male student to register since World War II. The once again coeducational school issued redesigned uniforms as well."

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"… perhaps the greatest attention after the Second World War. In 1948, a new School of X-Ray Technology accepted its first students, with Patricia…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Bruinius, Harry, Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America’s Quest for Racial Purity, 2006, Vantage Books, New…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"A World War II Honor Roll stood on the grounds of the library for a time, but burned and was not replaced."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"… would be started in August when the boys from World War I returned. Recreation in Stockholm Many people in Stockholm were looking for a way to get…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… Harbor in the influenza outbreak during the First World War. Mr. Totten owned a china shop. Lucy and James Bain had a variety store."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"… when Roosevelt became president? She thought the world of Roosevelt cause things got so much better after."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… Society & Museum Railroads: Scarborough’s World Expands Portland, Saco & Portsmouth; Boston & Maine Before the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… 1910Farmington Historical Society “Just before World War I the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad reached its peak of prosperity…” giving…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… wanted to travel and sell his gum all around the world. Two years later, he and his father began a business and moved to Bangor which was a much…"

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"After the United States joined the Second World War in December 1941, the hospital (already home to a school of nursing) helped the U.S."

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Acadian Archives

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"… that there was not a fair and that was during World War II. In 1932, the New Portland Lions Club took over running the fair."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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