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Historical Items Showing 3 of 48 View All
Item 12794
Contributed by: Colby College Special Collections
Location: Waterville
Media: photographic print
Item 34004
Rusticators sailing, Blue Hill, 1907
Contributed by: Blue Hill Public Library
Date: 1907
Location: Blue Hill
Media: Photographic print
Item 34005
Summer sailing, Blue Hill, 1907
Contributed by: Blue Hill Public Library
Date: 1907
Location: Blue Hill
Media: Photographic print
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George Henry Preble of Portland, nephew of Edward Preble who was known as the father of the U.S. Navy, temporarily lost his command during the Civil War when he was charged with failing to stop a Confederate ship from getting through the Union blockade at Mobile.
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After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.
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A Brief History of Colby College
Colby originated in 1813 as Maine Literary and Theological Institution and is now a small private liberal arts college of about 1,800 students. A timeline of the history and development of Colby College from 1813 until the present.
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Bryant-Rockefeller
… 21570 infoTrenton Cemetery & Keeping Society This is a photograph of Donald Bryant seated on the Rockefeller's sailing sloop, "Jack Tar II".
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Bryant-Rockefeller
… Bryant at the helm of the Rockefeller's sailing sloop, "Jack Tar II", accompanied by Peggy Rockefeller.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Shipping
On August 9, 1804, Knox noted “60 spruce knees bought of Mark Davis at 4/6 each for the sloop now building.” When Knox settled accounts with Edward…