Keywords: American Can Company
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Site Pages
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Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2
"The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation The committee sent a similar address to the citizens of Maine urging them to support…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans
"… to approximately 11,600 years ago and a Native American presence in Northern Maine can be found in the archaeological record and the landscape."
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"Lee, Maureen Elgersman, Blck Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880-1950, 2005, University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H."
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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"American Can Company, Lubec, ca. 1915Lubec Historical Society Oddly enough, no photographs have turned up of the technology that replaced the old…"
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"American Can Company built a plant for the manufacture of two-piece, drawn cans, employing hundreds of workers."
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"builds plant in Lubec for manufacture of two-piece drawn cans 1910 • Census results – 3,363 1911 • Lubec Centennial Celebration held on July 4 --…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3
"… State Museum, are temporarily on loan to the American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester Vermont as part of an exhibit entitled: “A Graceful Rise…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family
"In the Maine Woods, Forest and Stream, The American Angler, Rod and Gun, and The American Sportsman magazines carried her articles about Maine…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle
"… incorporated and Presque Isle had its first water company, the Presque Isle Water Company, which built and operated the reservoir at Mantle Lake to…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School
"… the job done, and the message here is that you can make a difference. Somewhere along the line you will get a chance to step up and take an…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3
"1910 Today one can still hitch ride on the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad at their museum in downtown Phillips."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"… to the NEH's Code of Ethics Related to Native Americans. The Zooniverse X The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation
"Can you imagine? Blue Ledge on the Sandy River, Strong, ca. 1905Strong Historical Society Many people used to rely on hunting, fishing, and…"
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"… lands that remained relatively unknown to Euro-Americans even into the twentieth century. The fur trader and map maker David Thompson (1770-1857)…"
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"… that remade northeastern North America as Euro-American space. Nonetheless, the long-lasting international border of 1842 is not as all powerful as…"
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Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property
"Olin is honored to this day by having his name listed on the African-American Civil War Monument in Washington, D.C."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox
"… General Henry Knox and his involvement in the American Revolution, from 1775 – 1783. The bulk of the research that has been done on his personal…"
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Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation
"Today the book lover can not only sense the history of the early Water Street book trade but can experience it by entering the antiquarian bookstore…"
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2
"… years it was and still is today operating as the American Legion Hall. The next building on the right is the Willis Bennett Garage."
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"The steamboat was owned by the Penobscot Navigation Company. William Moor and his brother Daniel Moor Jr. navigated the first steamboat."