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Historic Hallowell - The Boston Flint Company

"The Boston Flint Company Michaela Graves, Halley Lane, Danna Petersen & Natalie St. Hilaire Hallowell had a sandpaper mill which was built in 1880…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Circus swing, Boston, 1853

"Circus swing, Boston, 1853 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Brick Works

"… the area of Broad Street and India Street, replacing decaying wharves; and the Dover Street Bridge between Boston and South Boston opened in 1805."

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

"… Pickering Thomas, Portland Eaton Tarbell, Bangor Olmsted Brothers, Boston Stockly & Leahy Associates, Portland Wadsworth and Boston, Portland"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"The Boston & Maine still exists and its one remaining line accommodates both freight and Amtrak passenger service."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Montpelier

"… the estate built for General Henry Knox by Boston housewright Ebenezer Dunton in 1795. This mansion was considered to be one of the finest of its…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Lockheed 10A, Presque Isle, 1940

"… Description A Lockheed 10-A "Electra" of the Boston-Maine Airways is shown in Presque Isle. This was the same model plane as was flown by Amelia…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"David Jefferies David Jeffries was a wealthy Boston merchant who emigrated from England to Boston in 1677."

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

"Jeffries was a descendent of Thomas Brattle, a Harvard graduate, and served as Boston town treasurer from 1750-1782."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"… at the Royall Exchange Tavern on King Street in Boston. X While claiming ownership to hundreds of thousands of acres in Maine, most of the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 10 of 17

"… the attack on Fort Sumter was not likely, because Boston papers stated that Confederate President Jefferson Davis had telegraphed to Charleston not…"

Maine and the Civil War - Togus Veterans' Hospital view, 1885

"… Veterans' Hospital view, 1885 Contributed by Boston Public Library Description This bird's-eye view shows the Togus home for veterans."

Historic Hallowell - In Sickness and in Health

"… to professional and commercial interests in Boston most of these men were members of the Massachusetts Medical Society and many traveled to Boston…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… into Hallowell were from New Bedford, New York, Boston, North Yarmouth, Salem, Portland, East Port, Witheren Falmouth, Fowler Salisbury, Perkins…"

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"Due to Eastport’s connection to Boston the town had the best stocked stores in the county. It was said that the lines of clothing, hardware, shoes…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Interior plans, Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"… built in 1852-1853 and designed by John Towle of Boston, also was known as Central Congregational Church."

Music in Maine - Drum, Stockton Springs, ca. 1840

"… and musical instruments at 92 Court Street in Boston from 1820 to 1844, specializing in bass drums for militia units."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards

"The Boston & Bangor Steamboat Company (1834-1935) serviced a steamboat wharf in Hampden and carried passengers and freight from town to town along…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 4 of 4

"Boston: W. F. Stanwood, 1864. Bishop, Chris and Drury, Ian. 1400 Days The Civil War Day by Day. New York: Gallery Books, 1990. Print."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"Russell, 57 Cornhill, Boston, MA., 1881; History of Rumford, Oxford County, Maine From Its First Settlement in 1779 to the Present Time, by William B."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"Webber, Sr., an individual partner The Boston Flint Paper Company, Whiting Mill, Machine Shop, and the Slate & Plaster Mill operated along the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… from others and shipped them by the carload to Boston." From there they were "sent to England and sold at top prices.” In 1872, the first…"