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Keywords: Cumberland
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Item 9319
Title: Greely Institute, Cumberland, 1921
Contributed by: Cumberland Historical Society
Date: 1921-07-18
Location: Cumberland
Media: Photograph
Item 31520
Title: Locating the old houses of Cumberland map, by Hope Dilloway, 1989
Contributed by: Prince Memorial Library
Date: 1989
Location: Cumberland
Media: Ink and watercolor on paper
Item 31016
Title: Cumberland, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Cumberland Historical Society
Date: circa 1870
Location: Cumberland
Media: Photographs; Stereographs
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Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.
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Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
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Site
A unique two-town history. Prince Memorial Library, Cumberland Historical Society, North Yarmouth Historical Society, Skyline Farm, and Greely Middle School partnered to tell the story of how Cumberland and North Yarmouth were originally part of the same community. Libraries, the Civil War, pauper laws, main streets, local industries, and Skyline Farm are some of the topics covered on the site.
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