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Phillips Historical Society

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Camp Winnebago

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Olof Nylander, 1864-1943

"… Conglomerate, 1934Nylander Museum Nadeau Lake lime deposit, 1925Nylander Museum Hall's Lime Plant, Nadeau Lake, ca."

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"Katahdin, Moosehead Lake, Rangley Lake, as well as various other locations along Maine’s woodlands and coast."

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Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… feet of lumber from the land where Mattanawcook Lake would eventually be, enough to run the three saws in the two saw mills for five years."

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Caribou Public Library

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway

"… and had railway tracks built from Eagle Lake to the summit of Green Mountain. Clerque also built a hotel, named the Summit House, on Green…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - The History of Laundry, Aroostook County Style - Page 1 of 2

"… had a tub, which she filled with water from a lake, stream, well, or river. She would bring the tub down to these sources of water and clean the…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"Though steamboats now and then were both used to carry goods and people across rivers and lakes they are not used as widely as they once were due to…"

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Millinocket Fire Department

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Norcross Heritage Trust

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Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"Logs were also transported across lakes using booms. Booms were large logs attached together by a chain."

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Frye Island Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"… carried cargo back and forth across the Great Lakes. Three-masted "terns" were a favorite rig of Canada's Maritime Provinces."

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Monson Historical Society

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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

"… head of the Connecticut River, through the Great Lakes, and the eastern border’s terminus at Lake of the Woods (the intersection of modern-day…"

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Project Partners

"… New Sweden, Stockholm, Westmanland, and Madawaska Lake. As part of the New Sweden School's Maine History, Local History unit, seventh and eighth…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… tidal pools or coastal caverns? Boat the bays or lakes (powered by oar, paddle, sail or steam)? Brave an island tour in a buckboard? Stroll a field…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… as close as a stroll along a local riverbank or lake shoreline and an observant eye. The earliest Paleoindian sites in northern Maine date back to…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Shipping

"… 110 tons; the brig Quantibacook (named for a lake in Searsmont, Maine), built in 1804 by Howland and Asa Rogers and weighing 140 tons; and the…"

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Baldwin Historical Society

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Skowhegan Free Public Library

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Norway Memorial Library

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… including Garland Pond (Little Ellis) and Silver Lake (Ellis Pond or Roxbury Pond). Before Byron was named Byron it was called Skillertown, a name…"