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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"Sources: "Lombard Steam Log Hauler." America's Only Steam and Threshing Enthusiast Magazine: Steam Traction - Farm Collector. Web. 6 Apr. 2010."

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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789

"… Maine's separation.[10] New Map of English America, 1677 Since Massachusetts was adjacent to New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York and Rhode…"

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Tate House Museum

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Lincoln, Maine - World War I

"When the United States did enter, we entered as a part of the Allies. The whole war started because of the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"Growing up, my mother didn’t have a TV or toys. She grew up poor and moved to seek a new life in the United States of America."

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"Mill Closes Lincoln and surrounding communities suffered another major blow in 1968 with the closure of the Eastern Fine Paper and Pulp Division of…"

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Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"After he moved to America, he worked at the Clark Thread Company in Newark, New Jersey. In 1874, he bought a sawmill in South Lincoln that was built…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 3 of 17

"Ice harvesting was not only a local, state or national trade, ice was shipped all over the world as far as South America, India and China."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 10 of 13

"… 1976 Yearbook of Agroculture THE FACE OF RURAL AMERICA X Frequently, the digger lags would come apart and the digger driver had to shut the…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3

"The early Scottish settlers in Nova Scotia came from the Lodge of Edinburgh. In 1704, Johathan Belcher, later Governor of Massachusetts, was made a…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… was the crossroads of English and French North America, and all the old hatreds and arguments crossed from the Old World into the New with vicious…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Students said the Lord’s Prayer, sang "America," and saluted the flag. They learned poetry and performed plays."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3

"May her soul rest in peace.” Today, Fly Rod’s legacy is evident in Strong and other communities of Northern Franklin County through active guide…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 4 of 4

"… Act, shown here: "Resolved, that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"In many ways, WWI introduced the United States as a world power, and military demonstrations solidified its new role."

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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

"This ill-defined boundary, based on an inaccurate map, was laid out in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Maine Historical Society The European history of…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"It was a new version of a defining problem in the history of early Maine: conflicts sown by vague boundaries drawn on paper in faraway rooms."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"and Stan P., Sleeper, Frank H. Images of America: Presque Isle, Caribou and New Sweden. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1994. Stimpson, Rita M."

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… Map - Mount Hope Cemetery Corp & Crematory - America's Second Garden Cemetery.” Mount Hope Cemetery Corp & Crematory, Mount Hope Cemetery Corp…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"… the first 1,000,000 subscriber magazine in the United States. The success of Comfort was also the major source of the families financial resources."

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - "Good the more communicated, the more abundant grows" : The Thursday Club

"… life, the greater unity, the "all in all." -- Preface to THE HISTORY OF THE WOMAN'S CLUB MOVEMENT IN AMERICA, By Mrs. Jennie June Croly (1898)."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… just for tonight!”, became very popular here in America. That poem remained by far her best known, even though she published many poems, often in…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… Errors on the Border between the United States and British North America, 1782-1842,” Imago Mundi, 50 (1998), 105-125 Gregory, Alice."