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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… times, but both buildings AND roads, the ancient paths and rough trails that were so essential to our settlement, stand sentinel to the heritage of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"… marshes and turned ancient forest trails into paths and dirt roads. I mean now to give you a history of my discovering of the Island of Mount…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… the marsh from Oak Hill to Dunstan, the current path of Route 1, and was funded by tolls of eight cents for a horse and twenty-five cents for a…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"… Map, 1924 Abbott Park Original Design Map "Paths" in Google Earth: Yet another feature of Google Earth is the ability to draw a path on a map to…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… would destroy everything in the raging water’s path. In October 1785 there “occurred the first of a series of great freshets, which from time to…"