Keywords: Military outpost
Item 108707
Sutler agreement with Shepard Cary, Houlton, 1837
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1837-06-24 Location: Houlton Media: Ink on Paper
Item 108923
US officer and a German POW officer, Houlton, ca. 1944
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1944 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
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Black soldiers served in Maine during World War II, assigned in small numbers throughout the state to guard Grand Trunk rail lines from a possible German attack. The soldiers, who lived in railroad cars near their posts often interacted with local residents.
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These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"… inland routes leading from Maine to Canadian outposts became very important. Hallowell was a trade center of long standing because it had a…"
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"… property arrived in the Dawnland, forming coastal outposts devoted to fishing, logging, and fur trading."
