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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head by Ronald Pesha, West Quoddy Head Light Keepers Assoc., Inc. Images from the organization's collection…"

West Quoddy Head Light Keepers Association

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village Schools

"One of the schools was a primary, grammar, and high school at certain points in time. The other school, the Great Works school does not have any…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… constructed at Carrying Place Cove – 1.5 miles west of West Quoddy Head • Last sailing ship built in Lubec – Charles Sears 1879 • Number of active…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Lead mines were dug in West Lubec and on South Bay. War and Trade In the midst of prosperity came the outbreak of Civil War and, in 1861, over 200…"

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… with temperature falling to -24 degrees at some points. But after the first of the year conditions improved rapidly."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"There was Rosemary Ranck, who at some point in 1975, walked into McCurdy’s. There she photographed two workers in the Brining Room who have been…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"… who used to work at McCurdy’s, made an important point in 2001: Each person working in the Shed did everything: skinning, gutting, boxing and…"

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"… to Eastport to gain passage to Boston and other points. Due to Eastport’s connection to Boston the town had the best stocked stores in the county."

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"Arrow drawn on photo points to Jernegan. Photo donated by Edith Comstock.Lubec Memorial Library Why were so many people willing to invest their life…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… grade reaching 48 feet above high tide at the point of greatest elevation. Achieving the ramps to this grade required much fill."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… jobs and it is difficult from the present vantage point to say what the hierarchical levels were. At any rate, these were men’s jobs, and for this…"

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… the open Atlantic, bringing Pennsylvania flour, West India sugar, and English cloth and hardware, returning with shingles, clapboards, hogsheads…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"… the trail to the last house, then followed a west-north-west compass route and crossed the Sandy River at about what we now call the New Sharon…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Our Resources

"… 734.6921 Islesboro Islands Trust, PO Box 182, 376 West Bay Road, 734.6907 www.islesboroislandstrust.org Maine State Ferry, Islesboro 734.6935…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"In 1676 Mogg Heigon and his men led an unsuccessful attack on the Black Point garrison. Mogg suggested to Jocelyn that the settlers in the garrison…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Site Resources

"Print. Haley, John West. The Rebel yell & the Yankee hurrah: the Civil War journal of a Maine volunteer. Camden, Me.: Down East Books, 1985."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"… Museum Description The south side and west end of Third Parish Church, also known as Central Congregational Church, in Bangor are shown…"

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

"The West Scarboro station was located near the junction of Old Blue Point and Portland Street (Milliken Mills Road)."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"They disembarked at the wharves on Peters’ Point or Parker Point where they might be met by horse-drawn carriages to take them up Tenney Hill to…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… then South South East to the Ocean and then West South West Eight miles and then to the first Bounds mentioned: containing a Neck of Land, Water…"

Historic Hallowell - History Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved

"… Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved West Side, Water Street, Hallowell, ca. 1900Hubbard Free Library Historic Hallowell, a book giving a…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"… fishing grounds; and ships sailed to England, the West Indies and other trading ports. After the British burned and destroyed Portland’s merchant…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"Hewes Point developed into Islesboro's second summer resort area in the 1880s, but was a year 'round community as well."