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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About MCHP

"About MCHP X About the Maine Community Heritage Project... The Maine Community Heritage Project (MCHP), a partnership between Maine…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Online Exhibits

"Online Exhibits Our MCHP Team has put together the following exhibits. We hope that you enjoy exploring them as much as we have enjoyed working on…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"Will warrant that good deer hunting be found.” One man who answered Joe’s ad was William Lyman Underwood, grandson to William Underwood who…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Bob Marley

"He then attended Deering High School in Portland, Maine. Marley had his first experiences with comedy while in high school."

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

"… was received stopped at the postoffice either at Deer Isle or Mount Desert and was brought to this island when a sail boat chanced to visit those…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… Portland peninsula and another one hundred in the Deering area. He also worked throughout Maine and received commissions from other parts of the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"In 1857 the Rockland's Captain, Charles Deering, added Bar Harbor to his stops. The next year he opened the Deering House, Bar Harbor's second hotel."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… wins and four losses and ultimately lost to Deering in the Western Maine Quarterfinals at the Portland Expo."

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"Meat victuals were woodchuck, bear, deer and raccoons. Clams, flounders, salmon, shad, cod and haddock were plentiful, and succotash and pemmican (no…"

Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"… Women’s Race and selling “Super Burritos” at the Deering Oak Family Festival. The Elks Club and Italian Heritage Club also participated in…"

Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 1 of 2

"… on November 11, 1938, “Everyone who could went to Deering to a movie, ‘Captains Courageous’ and cried all afternoon.” Sister Annunciata also…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… modern-day Eastport, Maine) to go to the US, while loyalist homesteads on Deer, Campobello and Grand Manan led them to be recognized as British."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"From deep wood teepees they would track deer, caribou, moose, and bear. They would use a bow and arrow to catch the animals in a snow drift."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… fifty years of sporadic mail brought from the Deer Isle or Mount Desert Island post offices whenever a sailboat happened to be heading through."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… as well as the close proximity to Campobello and Deer Islands made the work of customs officials difficult indeed."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"For Western Maine, well-known Deering High of South Portland; for Eastern Maine, the Hampden Academy boys, a team that had yet to win a state…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… 76.8 square miles: black bear, whitetail deer, moose, coyotes, bobcats, lynx, snowshoe hare, skunks, woodchucks, raccoons, fishers, otters…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… assembly and camp area in Portland’s East Deering, across the cove from the Marine Hospital (now Martin's Point)."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… bought the largest and most expensive house in Deering Center, Maine. During the last months of his life he took an interest in ancient Egypt and…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Wildlife included fox and mink. Deer arrived in the 1930s and are now abundant. Moose occasionally swim from the mainland."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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