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Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… Moses was also the president of the Bath Street Railroad, Bath Gas and Electric company, and the New England Ship Building Company. Galen C."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"Before roads, railroad bridges and tide gates, ocean water overflowed the marsh at high tide. Boats were able to sail up the Scarborough River and…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 4 of 17

"… and Sons began a contract for the New York Harlem Bridge and a bridge in Philadelphia to provide 25,000 yards of stone to New York and 600 for…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"… was the President of The Portland and Kennebec Railroad. John Patten had the idea and was also was the main builder for this project of making the…"

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Mono Aircraft Company, Presque Isle, 1935

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 3 of 4

"In the seventh grade her school was across the bridge, and in high school her dad drove the bus so she would ride his bus for a little ways before an…"

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Grist and saw mills on the Upper Falls, Rumford, ca. 1895

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 2 of 3

"long bridge from the top of the dam to the gatehouse. The gatehouse was to be of a circular form with a 10 foot interior diameter."

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View of Main Street Ridlonville from Day Hill, 1908

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… in 1936 came along and wiped out the Ridlonville Bridge. Many homes and businesses along the Androscoggin were destroyed, some never to be rebuilt."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"… be seen the Androscoggin river, above the High Bridge, in the Virginia Area of Rumford. Here is the letter from Waldo Pettengill to Hugh J."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… the Backingdom Road went across the Thad White Bridge, past York Hill, and on to Poplar Hill. There was a county road that went from Dixfield up to…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"In 1901 the Red Bridge was built near this location. Isaac Gleason was considered the pioneer of Mexico Corner."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Riverside Park and Arboretum

"… and weather delays as well as the State Street Bridge reconstruction project, completion was delayed until the spring of 1980."

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Lincoln, Maine - Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1920

"… American troop detachment sent here to guard the railroad bridges in Lincoln, Mattawamkeag and Passadumkeag during World War II."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 65-83

"… School Bangor House Peter Edes Bangor-Old Town railroad Mount Hope Cemetery North Bangor (Veazie) Bangor bridges, churches, schools Bangor…"

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Odd Fellows Hall and French & Elliott Store, ca. 1916

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"The railroad was used for both passenger and freight trains. Before it was built the railroad lines were either woods, towns, or fields."

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Skowhegan Doughboys in France, WWI, France, 1918

Skowhegan History House

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"B&A Railroad The B&A Railroad (Bangor and Aroostook Railroad) was built in 1881. Because of the increase of population, railroad workers felt that…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"The Patten Free Library Text by Noah Lapointe, Austin Lewis, Kyle Perry, and Shadow Stephens 7th grade students at Bath Middle School."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Overview

"Project Overview In June of 2008, the community partnership of the Sagadahoc History & Genealogy Room at the Patten Free Library, the Bath…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"Old Town Hall and Grant Building Text by Jocelyn Bernier, Savannah Rice, Shawn Russell, and Cody Seekins 7th grade students at Bath Middle School…"

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Dreamland Theater, Front Street, Bath, ca. 1910

Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty

"Dreamland and Liberty Text by Frazier Metcalf and Deion Osmond 7th grade students from Bath Middle School Images from the Patten Free Library Where…"