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Historic Hallowell - Blizzard Poems

"… plow’s success died down difficult transportation troubled vehicles Deaths 56 seamen, 5 others on the Turnpike, and 2 lobstermen By Emma Wilson"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators

"… often multi-talented families, and were not only seamen, but farmers and lumbermen as well. In 1789, the Town of Mt."

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Historic Hallowell - Blizzards in Hallowell

"… was sixty-three: two lobstermen, fifty-six other seamen, and five deaths on the Turnpike. Overall, this storm had many effects in Hallowell and all…"

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… in almost every family went to sea as ordinary seamen and many of them died at sea. The heyday of American shipping was from 1815 to 1859, and…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… thousand, with an additional 600 non-resident seamen, in 1850. Another dimension of transportation had begun to take shape as the Portland and…"