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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor Saco River narrows, Biddeford, ca."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - A word of thanks

"A word of thanks We would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for the help and support they provided to Team Biddeford and the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea Wabanaki beaded purse, ca. 1870Hudson Museum, Univ."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford Copy of Major Phillips sale of lands to Richard Russell, Biddeford, 1673McArthur Public…"

Early Maine Photography - War

"… and witnessed many of the events of the American Revolution, including Valley Forge, the Battle of Monmouth, and Cornwallis’s Surrender at Yorktown."

Music in Maine - HEAR

"… multiple records, and those of different revolutions per minute (RPM) from 78, 45, 33 and 16 RPMs. Record player, ca."

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"After the American Revolution achieved independence for the United States, the District still had no autonomous legislature or executive, but instead…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… best remembered for his books of verse based on American themes: Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Tales of a…"

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 2 of 2

"… a painted backdrop ornamented with tents and an American flag. Other seated images include tintypes of Private John Mahoney of Augusta, who served…"

Early Maine Photography - Early Maine Photography at Maine Historical Society

"… the widely accepted definition of early American photography ranges from the arrival of the technology to the United States in 1840 to Civil War…"

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

": Picton Press, c2003 Puls, Mark Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"When the American Revolution broke out, the Fluckers abandoned their holdings in the American colonies and eventually returned to England, leaving…"

Historic Hallowell - In Sickness and in Health

"… To Modern Medicine In the years following the Revolution many trained physicians came to the Kennebec Valley to establish medical practices."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - General Henry Knox Museum

"… Knox, chief of artillery during the American Revolution and George Washington’s first Secretary of War."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Wharf, Store and Blacksmith Shop

"… Vose, who had served under Knox in the American Revolution. Vose was in Thomaston as early as 1787, and acted as Knox’s agent while he was building…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… District of Maine before and after the American Revolution. Conflicting land grants, competing companies (including the Pejepscot Company), and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 7 of 7

"… the speculators became known after the American Revolution) over vague, overlapping claims. Fearing that an adverse decision in court would…"

Davistown Museum

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"… Henry Knox and his involvement in the American Revolution, from 1775 – 1783. The bulk of the research that has been done on his personal and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"… beginning of 1752 to the start of the American revolution. Bowdoin was a leader who raised considerable amounts of money, and served on the…"

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

"… perhaps due to the fact that it was settled post-Revolution. Penobscot chief Joseph Orono joined with the colonists to fight the British in 1779…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Incorporation

"… residents of the town, who during the American Revolution stood against the English king, George III."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4

"Leamon, James S. Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1993."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… was the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution in 1783. It made multiple ambiguous geographic assertions, especially about the…"