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Site Pages
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4
"Historical Overview Conflict/Abandonment/Resettlement (1675-1702) Garrison Cove Marker on Black Point Road in ScarboroughScarborough…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4
"Historical Overview The Twentieth Century Trolley TicketsScarborough Historical Society & Museum By 1902 Scarborough had electricity, and…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4
"Historical Overview Map of Scarborough with MarshlandScarborough Historical Society & Museum Scarborough: They Called it Owascoag Text by…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4
"Historical Overview The Twenty-First Century Scarborough Professional Gateway located on Haigis Parkway X Residential and commercial growth…"
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Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society
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Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society
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Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century
"… undeveloped and managed to maintain its rural scenic identity as it strengthened its infrastructure."
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Old Berwick Historical Society
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Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview
"… selection of drawings for urban, coastal, and rural communities. Landscape design, parks, urban planning, and planned communities represent a…"
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street
"Farmland dominated the rural area to the village’s west. The combination of agriculture and industry permitted Hampden to thrive."
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Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2
"… Ridge, Split Hill, McCurdy, and Straight Bay, rural schools all, with teachers and some parents and friends."
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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2
"In the rural development of Maine before the Civil War, the Greek Revival cape style house enjoyed widespread popularity."
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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3
"… ladies, Dolly Madison (1768-1849) was raised in rural Virginia and educated in Philadelphia. After the death of her first husband, she married…"
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Early Maine Photography - Family Groups
"… Historical Society The faces of pre-Civil War rural Maine are symbolized in a daguerreotype of John R."
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Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2
"… shockwaves caused by Shays' Rebellion and other rural uprisings throughout New England. The September meeting ended with a decree that Mainers…"
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"… Threads demonstrates, Maine residents – urban and rural – were fully engaged in the choices of the style, pattern, fabric, and construction of…"
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland Community Library
"… of a new entity for the community, the Rural Living Center. This would serve as a parent organization for a series of useful enterprises for the…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5
"Today the Common is mostly considered rural living with few agricultural establishments. Although not considered the center of town, its residents…"
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Early Maine Photography - Occupational
"… dress and her old rocking chair indicate a rural origin for this tintype. Tintype of woman knitting, ca. 1870Maine Historical Society"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education
"1890Farmington Historical Society Farmington’s rural schools varied in the length of terms and the level of education provided – the reason was…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation
"Other Recreation Text By: Strong School 7th and 8th Graders, 2011-2012 Loading deer on the train at Strong station, ca."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women
"Prominent Women Text By: Strong School 7th and 8th Graders, 2011-2012 Julia Harris May poetry collection, 1903Farmington Public Library…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Resources
"Resources Mountains of Maine, Steven Pinkham, Down East Books, 2009 Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine, Thomas Desjardin, Oxford University Press, 1995…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Bridge That Changed The Map
"The Bridge That Changed The Map Text By: Carl W. Stinchfield Return to Online Exhibits Maps are often changed when bridges are built which alter the…"