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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"Malaga Island Cemetery Malaga resident cemetery at Pineland By Kate Philbrick, 2009 X Soon after the State of Maine purchased Malaga in 1911…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"He is buried in Bath at the Oak Grove Cemetery. Gershom H. Palmer opened a dry goods business in 1868, lasting at 94 Front Street until 1876."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"1920Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society Text by Eliza Worrick Mt. Desert Island's summer residents have always played an important role in the…"

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

"At that time both were buried at the cemetery in East New Portland. Their son James composed the following inscription on the stone marking the spot…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"Hope Cemetery in Bangor. J. Edgar Hoover to Shep Hurd, Bangor, 1937Bangor Historical Society Everett S. "Shep" Hurd, Bangor, ca."

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Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"… in a quiet spot beside the river in Elmwood Cemetery, a true hero and an inspiration to all. His citations and decoration along with his burial…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"Several years later, a cemetery was built in honor of him for his family behind the Burlington town hall. Thomas S."

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Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"It is said that the body is buried in the cemetery in South Winn, but the grave is unmarked. Marissa Martin "Compare and contrast your topic in the…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Source Beam, Philip. Winslow Homer at Prouts Neck. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1966…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"1780 ) near the Walnut Hill Cemetery on Route 115 and also used it for worship. By 1794, the hamlet that was to become Cumberland Center established…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… are buried in modest graves in Strong Village Cemetery. Thanks to the efforts of a group of grateful students, the grave marker was replaced with a…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"… family in the Porter lot in the Strong Village Cemetery. Lt. James Porter X Jeremy and Rachel Hunter Porter's son, James Ezekiel, was born in…"

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Batignani, Karen Wentworth, Maine’s Coastal Cemeteries, A Historic Tour, 2003, Down East Books, Camden, Maine."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… from the Inn to northward as far as Forest Hill Cemetery, came into the joint ownership of Mame and her two surviving brothers, Richard M."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"… Belcher died in 1890, and is buried in a private cemetery in Farmington with his parents. Margaret continued to live in Farmington with one…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… marks the Crosby lot in Hampden’s Locust Grove Cemetery, though his grave is not marked. In later years the Crosby family continued to make…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"… Morrill and Sons, located just above Walnut Hill cemetery, grew carnations and snapdragons. Fred Morrill died in 1939, after which the business was…"

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Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… at the age of 78 and his remains lie in the old cemetery at the center. Moses Guilford LowGuilford Historical Society 1816 was a pivotal year…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… first school, gave an acre of land for the first cemetery, and they were the first ferry owners. Early Government In 1805, riders brought official…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… self-sufficient: each had its own store, church, cemetery, schools, post office and train station, road commissioners, social organizations, and…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… the Hillmans, as Mary is buried in the Holley Cemetery in Farmington. The Norton Family Lillian Nordica in diamond tiaraNordica Memorial…"

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… age of 93, and is buried in the East New Portland Cemetery. Main Street West New PortlandNew Portland Historical Society Early life came…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… Nathaniel and Mary and his sister Mary in Gray’s cemetery. Charles Lawrence ca. 1866North Yarmouth Historical Society Charles Lawrence The…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"He was interred in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Bangor. Arthur and Mary Frances Gould had two sons, Arthur and Louis, and two daughters, Mildred…"