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Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum

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Paris Cape Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"A South Paris tintype of about 1860 shows eleven members of the Bemis family standing adjacent to the store of merchant Hiram Hubbard."

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Center Baptist Church, Lincoln, ca. 1900

"… at Lincoln Center on 28 November, 1845, from Paris, Maine. He was ordained a little more than a year later, soon after the church dedication on 1…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 3 of 3

"… Historical Society Nile green dress, Paris, ca. 1926Maine Historical Society Perhaps a green all over beaded mid-calf length dress is the…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1900-1930

"… emerged after Sergei Diagilev's Asian-inspired costumed Ballets Russes burst on the Paris scene in 1909, and later toured the United States."

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"In 1763 the French and Indian Wars ended with the Paris Peace Treaty which ensured the safety of settlers from attack."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"… of the Revolutionary War, in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, negotiators had sketched an imaginary line through this perpetually contested and poorly…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"… an inaccurate map, was laid out in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Maine Historical Society The European history of the borderland region between…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"The Treaty of Paris was written in 1783 ending the War with Great Britain which recognized the United States."

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… Governor Enoch Lincoln Enoch Lincoln, Paris, 1827Maine Historical Society Governor Enoch Lincoln died in 1829, a decade before the…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… riders brought official papers from Boston to Paris proclaiming the founding of Oxford County, and Paris Hill as the county seat."

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"A native of Paris Hill, Hamlin moved to Hampden as a young man to practice law. A Jacksonian Democrat, he began his political career in the Maine…"

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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 2 of 5

"… and difficult process, however, was the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution in 1783. It made multiple ambiguous geographic…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"Paris, 1632. Fischer, David Hackett. "Champlain’s Dream." New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. Morris, Charles. “A Report of a Survey of the River St."

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Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"Jacques Bellissent, flute maker to the Paris Conservatory made this flute. Longfellow purchased it during his 1825 trip to Europe."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… of Lewiston/Auburn to the east, and Norway/South Paris to the west. While the region retains its rural small-town nature, inhabitants can much more…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"… Sumner—look upon Auburn/Lewiston or South Paris/Norway as their commercial centers. Many inhabitants of the region work in those bigger cities and…"

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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 3 of 5

"The Treaty of Paris (1783) caused the most prolix problems in establishing the border, and subsequent US-British treaties gradually tried to make…"

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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 5 of 5

"… of 1763, the Quebec Act (1774), Treaties of Paris (1763 and 1783), the Jay Treaty (1794), the Treaty of Ghent (1814), and the Webster-Ashburton…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"The Commissioners received viable proposals from Paris Academy, Gorham Seminary, Farmington Academy, and Litchfield Academy."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… from California, and the Little Singers of Paris, and American choral group. A Greek Orthodox vespers service closed the first night of the…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… visit family in Arizona; experience springtime in Paris—easy, surf the web to find the best airfare, pack a bag and you’re off."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… of failed speculations, Swan was imprisoned in Paris, France for twenty-two years for a debt he did not acknowledge. He was released from St."