Keywords: Aroostook War
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Lincoln, Maine - View of Mattanawcook Lake from Clark Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890
"View of Mattanawcook Lake from Clark Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This is a beautiful…"
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Lincoln, Maine - High Street Bridge, Lincoln, ca. 1903
"High Street Bridge, Lincoln, ca. 1903 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This is the High Street Bridge built in the…"
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Lincoln, Maine - View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913
"View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description A view of the town of Lincoln taken from…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony
"… 1860s, President Abraham Lincoln selected thirty war consuls whose job it was to promote the idea of immigration to America under the Homestead Act."
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Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library
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Presque Isle Historical Society
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 74-138
"Jerome Aroostook War Cobb Dancing School Ezekiel Hopkins Hopkins house illustration John Shey Farming Locofoco System of Free Trade Tyler Wasgatt…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties
"With the exception of Aroostook County, Maine’s remaining farmers survived by practicing a subsistence strategy that included diverse crop and…"
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"… 1837-38 and conflict over access to timber in the Aroostook “War” of 1838-39, encouraged the new Whig and Tory governments of the US and Britain to…"
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Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 1 of 3
"… Company Guilford Bed and Breakfast Bangor and Aroostook Railroad DAVIS BROTHERS FURNITURE Text by: Morgan King and Brittany Cookson Eighth Grade…"
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Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3
"Bangor and Aroostook Railroad • Text By: Spencer Martell and Paul Martin • Eight Grade Students at Piscataquis Community Middle School • Images from…"
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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2
"The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad tracks are on the left. The first (closest) building on the right is M. Holbrook's Pool Hall and Bowling Alley."
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Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell
"Tarbell By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Born on an Aroostook County potato farm in Merrill in 1914, Eaton Weatherbee Tarbell (1914-1992) graduated…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"The so called Aroostook War was avoided, however, when Gen. Winfield Scott, President Van Buren's emissary, convinced Governor Fairfield to resolve…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture
"In the 1900’s, Aroostook would take the lead in Maine’s potato production. E.S. Dingley Corn Huskers The corn season lasted only three weeks."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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