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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Partners

"The subject matter of a learning expedition is a compelling topic derived from content standards. Learning expeditions feature linked projects that…"

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Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"… Arnold, a 35 year old colonel, to co-lead an expedition to conquer Quebec with 1,100 men. These men were to get to Quebec by following the Kennebec…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Greenleaf Cilley

"… the Battleship “Ohio”, he participated in the expedition to Tusphan, Mexico. During its capture, he was wounded while storming the shore battery…"

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Mt. Desert Island Hospital

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Pittsfield Historical Society

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"… office, his uncle appointed him to the official expedition to inspect the fortifications to the east."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"… settlements in the Americas under an expedition led by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons and Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Québec."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… 34 Grays Hall in Cambridge to discuss a camping expedition to Maine. With his father, Harvard President Charles William Eliot, in Europe, young…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"… was military trained and was on at least one expedition to Norridgewock. He is listed on the John North map as surveyor."

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Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… they scoped out the area on fishing and trading expeditions, as was true for Matthew Patten. Generally agreed to be Surry's first settler, in 1767…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… to go to a store or something it was like a major expedition. So I was not taken around to play with other kids in Minturn or something like that…"

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Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… great losses as early as 1607 when the Popham expedition came to the mouth of the great Kennebec River."

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Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"The Homestead offered activities, like sailing expeditions, music, and picnic excursions. Guests who wanted to build summer cottages of their own…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… she participated in the Henry Ford Peace Expedition along with many other women. While living in Manhattan, Mary was given the opportunity to write…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"The failure of the American expedition to the Penobscot in 1779 was a costly one. The lumber trade, which had been the prinicipal means for…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"The Penobscot Expedition, as it came to be known, remained the worse worst American naval defeat until the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941."