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Eliot Baha'i Archives

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Green's Department Store

"In 1910, Green bought the Fred Porter Store. The old building was lost to a fire in the year 1912. Maurice Klein, from New York, rebuilt the building…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village Schools

"The green school remained a grammar school until it ceased February, 1966. Sometime in the 1970s it became the Fernwood Grange Hall."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Bob Marley

"Marley played an ignorant yet comical Detective Greenly. Marley and the cast mostly filmed in Boston, Massachusetts and one time in Ontario, Canada."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"Engineer Green was driving a north bound train when he struck the cars waiting to be picked up. Green was caught in the debris."

Historic Hallowell - The Stevens Training Center Serenaders

"Click on the titles. The World Outside  2:43 Green Fields  3:41 He   3:03 He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands   2:56 Climb Ev’ry Mountain   2:50…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"Green Acres with Keepers Lodge, Farmington, ca. 1890 This was Harold Titcomb's home in Farmington on Orchard Street. The house still stands."

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"… that the boat builders had to use fresh, or green, wood to build them. The wood was still wet so the planks on the bottom of the bateaux didn't…"

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 2 of 2

"If you are coming from Sangerville, Parkman, or Abbot it is after the green bridge; it is on the left. The address is 9 Oak Street."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"This green space became known as Meeting House Park. (And now you know that Church Street is named for John Church and not the North Church at the…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"The girls would gather nuts, greens, roots and firewood. They also would help with the cooking and carrying of the household goods to the summer or…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… as they were called because they came in green, continued to be found on the walls of many classrooms for many years."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ladies Blush apple, Bangor, 1889

"… favorite tree was the Ladies blush a small red & green apple a prolific bearer & resembled the snow or Famouse apple this tree bore every year a…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"It was green with orange letters and said something like A Child's First Reader. On the first page we were introduced to Dickie Dare, who taught us…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin apple tree, Bangor, ca. 1862

"… and soundness." Martin found it "a specie of greening with a red cheek the flesh when ripe a juicy tender tart very sharp." In 1862, the tree was…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Original Mount Desert Island Pilot Project (2006)

"… Class Bar Harbor: Building of Arts By: Josh Howie Green Mountain Railway By: Spenser Simis The Bryants and the Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… the beginning of the Pageant, decorators spread a green dye on the ground to give the Ellipse a “fresh” look."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"… bricks that make up the outer facade are painted green, yellow, and tan. The Church Block is a three-story building."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… are the seasonal weather conditions, mosquitoes, green-headed flies and midges that bother diggers on the flats."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"… marsh, “a world of many different creatures as green crabs scurry among the shaded plant stalks, marsh wrens weave the grass blades into swaying…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… first settlers of Byron were Samuel Knapp, Jonas Green, James Bawn, John Thomas, J. Stockbridge, Richard Morrell, and Abraham Reed."

Windham Historical Society

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Otisfield Historical Society

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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"Green. The smoke rising from the buildings meant herring were being processed. In 1959 Arthur McCurdy, acquired the “stand,” as people termed the…"