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Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading sugar beets, Aroostook County, ca. 1975

"Sugar beets consequently fell out of favor. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair

"… of foods, such as butter, cheese, maple sugar and fruits. Samples of other items include: worsted hose (stockings), hats, caps, boots and shoes…"

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Camden-Rockport Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… Atlantic, bringing Pennsylvania flour, West India sugar, and English cloth and hardware, returning with shingles, clapboards, hogsheads and barrel…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - 1840 U.S. Census Questions

"How many pounds of sugar? Silk cocoons? 8. How many cords of wood have you sold? 9. What is the value of the products of your orchard? Dairy…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Doughty Students

"… WWII People had to ration things like gas and sugar! The Bangor Public Library has an amazing collection of Bangor Daily News on microfilm Mrs."

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Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… into Hallowell were product such as cloth, wine, sugar loaves, molasses, rum, shoes, tools, different types of food that they did not already have…"

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Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"Sugar was also important to making war weapons. The Ladies' Home Journal stated in one issue, "Sugar cane is needed to make molasses."

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"The ridges and hilltops were covered by sugar maple, beech, and ash, while the valleys held spruce, fir, and cedar."

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Historic Hallowell - This won't hurt a bit!

"… born in Jamaica where his family owned extensive sugar plantations. The family resided in England and Vaughan, a true polymath, received a quality…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"Crosby and his son, John, traded in sugar, molasses, and lumber with the West Indies. In 1806 he became the first president of the Penobscot Bank in…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… buying and selling of goods, including molasses, sugar, and rum from the West Indies. X Artisans were attracted to Summer Street’s wealth."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Maple sugar was also in demand as a way to become less dependent on imported molasses and sugar from the West Indies."

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

"… swaying nests, insects chew the leaves for their sugar before becoming food for hungry birds, and microscopic plants and animals drift with tide…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"… locally famous blueberrying spots, as were the Sugar Loaves. From the start of the strawberry season, through blueberries, raspberries and…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… than they could eat, they traded it for flour, sugar, soap, molasses, and oil. They eventually shipped fish to markets in Boston and New York and…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"… produced bags used for small groceries, sugar, coffee and tea, flour, charcoal, poultry sacks, nail and shot bags, bananas, and also bottle bags…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… he tapped his maple trees and made maple sugar and syrup for his family. Stephen Titcomb returned to Readfield to collect his family."

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… trader with the West Indies, “trading largely in sugar, molasses and lumber principally.” He was the owner of the first ship, the schooner…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"The syrup was a staple sugar source to early inhabitants; it is believed local Indians, such as Pierpole, taught the residents how to boil sap into…"

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Pejepscot Historical Society

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Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… included coal and flour from Boston, as well as sugar, molasses, rum, guano, coffee, fruit and spices from the West Indies."

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… Lump Spruce," "Licorice Lulu," "Trunk Spruce", "Sugar Cream," "Four-in-Hand," and "Biggest and Best." In 1872, Curtis decided to take up cleaning…"