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Maine Conservation Corps

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Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 1 of 2

"… the charge for complete separation and organized a meeting to discuss the organization of a future convention regarding independence."

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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"… Finally, after three decades of planning, organizing, lobbying and failure, Massachusetts Governor John Brooks signed the bill on June 19, and on…"

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Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"… was already underway, and this time it was more organized. Daniel Davis, one of the movement's literary leaders, published An Address to the…"

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Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"… movement, anti-separationists spent the summer organizing, and on Election Day in September they showed up by the thousands to cast their votes."

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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"… an initial pushback by leading abolitionists and organizers in Maine, most statesmen decided that immediate independence was more important than…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"Although organizations in Portland had provided coursework in the English language and citizenship before, this effort, led by veteran teacher Clara…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs

"By 1925, the NFBPWC was an established, yet new organization. Founded July 1919 – eight months before the 19th Amendment allocated voting rights for…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"… held in the country.” The centennial committee organized a series of grand activities including an exposition, several parades, a music festival…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Reform and Repeal

"X Who Profits from Beer? Christian Civic League of Maine Collections of Maine Historical Society Coll."

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Music in Maine - Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis

"1978Maine Historical Society Civic Center model, ca. 1970Maine Historical Society The Cumberland County Civic Center opened in Portland on…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - About Us

"… on Major General Henry Knox’s many business and civic ventures in Thomaston. The Thomaston Public Library is the fourth member of Thomaston's group."

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Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"… continue his usefulness and uplifting influence in the city which he loved and to whose civic improvement he devoted much attention and energy.”"

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Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"… like the Rainbow Girls and some high school civic students who attended town meetings. The town continues to hold meetings here."

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"The pro-Temperance organizations worked together to try and stop the consumption and purchasing of alcoholic beverages."

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Dyer Library/Saco Museum

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… North Yarmouth also wanted their own church and civic center close to where they lived. They worked hard to make it happen."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Society possess archival holdings from local civic organizations. Those interested attended lectures by notables like Joshua Chamberlain or…"

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… of Lincoln called on their perseverance and civic pride to once again change loss into success."

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Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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