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Item 35447
Title: Loading telephone poles, Masardis, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library
Date: circa 1895
Location: Masardis
Media: glass negative
Item 15927
Title: Men Hoisting Telephone Pole After the 1905 Fire
Contributed by: Sanford Historical Committee
Date: 1905
Location: Springvale
Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 18502
Title: Bangor and Aroostook Railroad train, Aroostook County, c. 1990
Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society
Date: circa 1990
Media: Photograph
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Settling along the Androscoggin and Kennebec
The Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick was a land company formed in 1714 and it set out to settle lands along the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers in Maine.
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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.