Keywords: Quick serve restaurants
Item 105560
Herb Cromwell's Store and Ginny's Snack Bar, Westport Island, ca. 1955
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1955 Location: Westport Island Media: Photographic print
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A Town Is Born: South Bristol, 1915
After being part of the town of Bristol for nearly 150 years, residents of South Bristol determined that their interests would be better served by becoming a separate town and they broke away from the large community of Bristol.
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In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.
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Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project
"… hub of the area, offering supermarkets, restaurants, and a wide variety of merchants. By contrast, citizens of the Nezinscot region—Buckfield…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"Hotels and restaurants would host the volumes of tourists passing through on their way to the “up country” where fishing and hunting would be the…"
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The Cup Code (working at OOB in the 1960s)
by Randy Randall
Teenagers cooking fried food in OOB and the code used identify the product and quantity.
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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
