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Seal Cove Auto Museum

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Today

"Town Seal, Thomaston, MaineThomaston Historical Society Of the over 100 workers at the yard, most have made a lifetime career of fine boat building…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900

"… many, one,” the motto that appeared in the Great Seal of the United States of America in 1782) proudly on her stern."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Life membership certificate, Farmington Public Library Association, 1917

"There is also a seal in the lower left-hand corner. It is a little uncertain, but we believe in the 1920's the library no longer issued these…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… Job, Lime, Lasell, Ensign to the south; Ram and Seal to the west. The Precambrian rocks of 700 Acre, Lime and Lasell Islands are some of the oldest…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… time Letters were merely folded and secured with sealing wax no envelopes were used Postage was charged according to the distance the letter was…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… guardianship of her daughter, Mina, and died in Seal Harbor (where she lived with Mina for just one month) on December 5, 1925, at the age of 84."

Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"Debating Society topics and seal.Hubbard Free Library The questions posed by the members of the the Society provide a unique insight into the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 5 of 5

"Bicentenial Memorabilia Seal, Dixfield, 2003.Dixfield Historical Society Sources: Dixfield Historical Society Archives and Artifacts Peter Stowell…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… expertly handling canoes and hunting seal and porpoise. Swan’s Island may have attracted this tribe as a seasonal or even permanent home."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… sea spearing for (Passamaquoddy) porpoises and seals. Fall/Winter - Before the frosts came, the women and children went into the forests to forage…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… House Hill in The Center, between Somesville and Seal Cove. For some time, these were the only churches on the island."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"… Historical Society Town of Dixfield seal, 1988Dixfield Historical Society Following the Revolutionary War, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"In 1869 the Clement family in Seal Harbor rebuilt their old homestead into the Seaside Inn. At Asticou, Chase Savage, who in 1870 had begun taking…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"… the newly settled Roberts family from neighboring Seal Harbor, and they established a permanent homestead just southwest of Harbor Brook at Asticou."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"Then came the step of sealing the cans in another section of the cannery, “bathing” the sealed cans in boiling water, and finally testing the cans…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… was constructed at a place called Wasaumkeag (the seal place) in what is today Fort Point in Stockton Springs."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… of the local church congregation in Northeast and Seal Harbors, perhaps as early as 1935. Charles carefully watched Mr."

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

"… to almost everything, including fish and seals. Once lobsters become more active, they are very hungry and are caught in higher numbers."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… them to the factories, cooked the sardines and sealed the cans. Until child labor laws were instituted in the 1930s children, using sharp knives…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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