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Presque Isle: The Star City - Weighing the big trout, Mill Site, 1891

"Participants went to St. Croix Lake then down the St. Croix Stream and the Aroostook River to Presque Isle, May 24-31, 1891."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… its mix of boreal and deciduous forests, clear lakes, and bold seashore. The artists were the forerunners of this group and several landscape…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"… to Student Research Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad station, Strong, ca. 1910Strong Historical Society As gold brought rails west…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"Fly fisherman, starting in the 1800s, used some of the flies that originated in Maine like the Grey Ghost, the Parmachenee Bell, and the Big Brother."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"… 1876, at age 29, he died at the battle of “Little Big Horn” in Montana under the command of William Armstrong Custer."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"His big problem was not downright opposition, but public indifference. In 1928, he scored the first major breakthrough after the town voted funds for…"

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…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"Click here. Ice Cutting, Lake Hebron, Monson, ca. 1900 A similar view to the procedure used on the Kennebec when gathering ice."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Quenching the Thirst

"… 378 B674Q-b Athian Lewey, West Grand Lake, 1898Maine Historical Society Atbian Lewey at Grand Lake, Maine Jim M'Kin, 1898 Photograph…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement

"X Maine State Temperance Camp-Meeting Sebago Lake, 1876 Collections of Maine Historical Society Coll."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… along the Big Machias River, and on Millinocket Lake (Aroostook River). Many Late Archaic period ground stone tools (probably used to fashion…"

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"… up to Quebec, instead of dying out in Moosehead Lake. The men thought that their worries were now over, but they were wrong. Dead wrong."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… to the region’s many rivers, streams, and lakes. The Androscoggin, Nezinscot, Ellis, Swift, Webb, and Twenty Mile Rivers all provided water power…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"… in the rivers since it was moving water and the lakes provided fresh water. Another reason Aaron might have moved here was there was no one here…"

Acadian Archives

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… eastern shore of the Kennebec and the Clarke and Lake Post in Arrowsic. Although some colonists persevered in the coming years, additional wars and…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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