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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"Click for Railroad Photos The new railroad had an immediate and profound impact. Mills built along the railroad made Strong the logging community it…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"… Art Museum, Presque Isle Historical Society and Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Harvesting Potatoes by hand, Aroostook County, ca."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the Aroostook Valley Railroad (an electric railroad that connected residents to nearby towns), the Northern Maine…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Byron and Buckfield—respectively the northern and southern-most towns in RSU 10—is 43 miles, with a driving time of 61 minutes."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Maine Special potato bag, Presque Isle, c. 1950

"1950 Contributed by Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Description 25 pound potato bag, Produce Distributors, Inc."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The Bangor and Piscataquis Canal and Railroad Company operated twelve miles of track between Bangor and Old Town beginning in 1836."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… of the strings program at the University of Southern Maine, has since performed two concerts with the violin."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… building blocks were put in place, the Village’s southern and western borders were assured that they would join other settlements along their banks…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… perhaps after 1790 when white settlers along southern Maine (then part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) and New Brunswick moved the aboriginal…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… probably contributed to another change at the southern end of downtown, the closing of the Maine Central Railroad Station when passenger service…"

Bridgton Historical Society

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

"… assistant at Maine Historical Society and a student in the University of Southern Maine's New England and American Studies graduate program."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"By this time they had a railroad that stretched a mile long complete with cars and 30 ton engine to accomodate their huge business."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"B&A Railroad The B&A Railroad (Bangor and Aroostook Railroad) was built in 1881. Because of the increase of population, railroad workers felt that…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"Dist.# 10 - Another schoolhouse in southern portion of East Strong was located at the end of the Lambert Road."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Massachusetts then claimed the southern Maine settlements as her own; and after initial opposition, most settlements capitulated."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… from 1923-1930, after that he retired to Southern Pines, North Carolina where he died on June 2nd, 1943 at the age of 90."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"The Civil War shut down southern markets for fish and ice and insurance rates skyrocketed from Confederate predation on Yankee trading vessels."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… his own as well as borrowed barns around southern Maine. With Skyline, he could consolidate the collection and also have a place where he could…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Maine 1776-1885, Francis Gould Butler) In southern Franklin County, thirty-six miles northwest of Augusta and eighty miles north of Portland, lies…"

Acadian Archives

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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