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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods Citations

"1936, Maine Flood Disaster of Friday, the 13th of March, 1936 Kennebec Journal, Steven Cartwright, Hubbard Free plans renovations Maine Sunday…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Resources

"… Odyssey: Good Times and Hard Times in Bath, 1936-1986.” Owen, Henry Wilson, 1936, “The Edward Clarence Plummer History of Bath, Maine.” Pert, P."

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 2 of 2

"Floods In March of 1936, New England experienced extreme rainfall, resulting in one of the worst floods on record for the region."

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Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 2 of 2

"… The fifth graders observations “One day in 1936 school children went to spend the end of the year by going on a boat at Gardner’s Lake."

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Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 2 of 3

"… Society Another big flood was the flood of 1936. The Piscataquis River flooded again. This time the damage was caused by ice jams."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"The Flood of 1936, Ridlonville to Rumford bridgeMexico Historical Society After the Depression things began to look up."

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Reform and Repeal

"… have a State Liquor Store in our Town (or City)?, 1936 Waterville Collections of Maine Historical Society, a gift from Charles E. Burden Coll."

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Skowhegan History House

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"… transported cars for $4.00 between 1934 and 1936. It could carry four passenger cars. Governor Brann Ferry, aerial view, ca."

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Penobscot Marine Museum

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History Bibliography

"Mattituck, N.Y.: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1936. Craig, Murray C. Benjamin Vaughan (1751-1835): The Life of an Anglo-American Intellectual."

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"Written by William Lewis In 1936, a major flood came upon the Kennebec River. The flood was a total disaster to the surrounding areas."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 2 of 4

"… New York," the business address she moved to 1936, suggesting the garments date from about this time."

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Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec Citations

"1936, Maine Flood Disaster of Friday, the 13th of March, 1936 Kennebec Journal, Steven Cartwright, Hubbard Free plans renovations Maine Sunday…"

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of East New Portland

"… a two-span concrete T-beam bridge constructed in 1936 by the Maine State Highway Commission. Covered Bridge: Covered Bridge at East New…"

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Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"… Lubec school children drowned that day, June 19, 1936. A summer day, after school ended for the year, created for picnics and the usually placid…"

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Brick Store Museum

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club

"1936 Bangor to Caribou Marathon SkiersNew Sweden Historical Society Some of the people that wanted to form the club were Evald Anderson, Buck…"

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

"… Taylor taught at the Parson's School, 1935, 1936, 1939, and 1940-1942. In the autumn of 1937 Ethel Cobb came to the Record farm on the middle road…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"It was finished in 1838 and demolished in 1936. By 1937 the W.T. Grant building was finished at the same location, 33 Centre Street."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine, 1636-1936. Yarmouth, Maine: The Author, 1937. Skyline Farm of North Yarmouth, Maine."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"In 1936 the railroad disbanded, ripped up the tracks, sold off its assets and destroyed what it could not sell."

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Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"… YMCA (1925-26) and the Maine Publicity Bureau (1936), both in Portland. His 1930 reconstruction of the William P."

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Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"… Harvard’s School of Architecture, leaving in 1936 to work in New York City on WPA mural projects with such noted artists as Stuart Davis and Philip…"