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Old Berwick Historical Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 2 of 3

"… Elementary School's librarian, and Steve Pinkham, author of Mountains of Maine: Intriguing Stories Behind Their Names."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3

"According to Dennis Sven Nordin, author of "Rich Harvest: A History of the Grange, 1867 to 1900," Grange rituals incorporated a mixture of Greek and…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Four sons of Jacob Abbott, Farmington, ca. 1865

"Lower right: Lyman, b. 1835. All four sons were authors. Benjamin and Austin jointly prepared legal compilations which were of importance to the…"

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Historic Hallowell - Our Work and Our Team

"… Leahy – Historic Hallowell Web Master - ConnectME Authority - State of Maine Gerry Mahoney – Author, historian, retired FBI Agent Bob McIntire –…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - People

"… 1841–1908: American clergyman, journalist, and author; son of Jacob Abbott Jacob Abbott 1803-1879: Founder of The Abbott School and author of…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Mary Ellen Chase

"Mary Ellen Chase Mary Ellen Chase, author of Silas Crockett, ca. 1935Maine Historical Society Mary Ellen Chase, the granddaughter of a sea…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo Raynes remembrance of trip around Cape Horn

"… Raynes' death in 1914 when the unidentified author found a transcript he thought was lost of Raynes' remembrances of the trip around Cape Horn."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"… and treaties, the foundations for federal law and authority. This reminds me of events detailed in Saxine’s Properties of Empire (2019) where the…"

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Baxter State Park

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - SEE NOTES "Jaffery" a new novel. Publisher's promotion postcard.

"… side assures us "the story, written in the author's happiest vein, works out to a perfectly satisfactory ending." William J."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Perry Opera House

"Brochure. Presque Isle: Author, 2007. Graves, Richard A. Forgotten Times: A Walk through History. Presque Isle, 2006."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Library

"… of books about Maine's rich history and by native authors. Our community living space, made possible by a generous donation from the Stephen and…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - Biographies

"The biographies are largely authored by Maine State Historian Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., and based his work with the Maine Historic Preservation…"

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Rumford Area Historical Society

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Maine's Road to Statehood - Turn of the Century to the War of 1812

"The anonymous author (perhaps Edes himself) wrote of a few different themes. The first and most important was the requirement of a strong military…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Source Materials

"… Society and the Northeast Harbor Library, the author gives thanks in particular the following people and resources crucial to the creation of this…"

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Brick Store Museum

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… 1842Maine Historical Society Many overlapping authorities had strong claims in this borderland, starting, of course, with Wabanaki Nations…"

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Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"… Library In 1909, Emma Huntington Nason, poet, author and composer wrote in Old Hallowell on the Kennebec: A stranger visiting Hallowell, to-day…"

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Historic Hallowell - Johnny Stringer ~ A Character of Industry

"… earliest photographs, he is described by author Emma Huntington Nason in Old Hallowell on the Kennebec, as one of the town’s “interesting…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - General Henry Knox Museum

"… encouraged and advised by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough, a frequent presenter. Summer teacher institute on the historic…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Division Street School, Bangor, 1865

"… (1823-1904), an accountant, shopkeeper, and author and illustrator of a journal recounting his life and experiences in the Bangor area, drew this…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

"… Blethen Maine Newspapers Explorer, scientist, author and teacher Donald B. MacMillan liked Wiscasset, a community of about 1,200 on the Sheepscot…"