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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

From there County Road went to the meadow onto Eastern Road, part of the Eastern Trail today, then meandered up over Scottow’s Hill and down the…

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

… grew over the next century, particularly in coastal towns. After the American Revolution achieved independence for the United States, the District…

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

Scarborough men have engaged primarily in coastal fishing, particularly clams and lobsters. As a second job, some lobstermen operated fishing party…

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

… long shipbuilding history of many other Maine coastal and river towns. There was a brief period of time, however, when Dunstan Landing was an…

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

… 10 August 1897, despite near-zero visibility, the coastal schooner Howard H. Middleton was under full sail as it approached Portland.

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

As a result, any coastal opposition to separation could no longer be based on the hindrance of the former Coasting Law, and many who had previously…

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 3 of 4

… Society & Museum Realizing that this significant coastal wildlife habitat was severely threatened, in 1957 the Maine Department of Inland…

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

… five tidal rivers, several smaller streams, some coastal freshwater marsh, tidal flats and less than 200 acres of upland habitat.

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

… the war, he was particularly concerned with coastal shipping and defenses in the District of Maine.

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

… to the commercial interests of the mercantile coastal communities. Additionally, many in York County opposed separation because the current capital…

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

With the northern-most coastal territory in the Union, and a shared a border with British Canada, Mainers largely shifted their focus from separation…

Bar Harbor Fire Department

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

New road construction projects were not always well received by property owners whose land was bisected by the new byways, and early records tell…

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1940 to Present Day

… The moniker is most fitting for this tranquil coastal village - a village that might never have been were it not for its connection to the sea.

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

From 1730, the Church Under the Ledge in the coastal area, now Route 88 in Yarmouth, was the center of the community, providing both worship and town…

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

It was the only highway to Thomaston before roads were established along Maine’s coastline. Map of the New England Coast, 1610Maine Historical…

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

… away” were discovering the rustic delights of coastal Maine towns such as Surry. Fires First fire truck, Surry, 1947Surry Historical Society…

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

Most came from Massachusetts and coastal Maine. By the 1860’s, much of the big pine in the region had been cut, and many of the American-born loggers…

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

… has a long and rich history, as one of the last coastal areas to be settled, in the mid 1760s. Although it is understood the first settlers…

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

… they discovered was the relative backwater of coastal Maine. Seeing an opportunity, A.C. and Emily Savage, like other year-round settlers on Mount…

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

Joseph Wood was 42 when they came to this coastal land whose pristine forests and great pines called to them.

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

… Playhouse to the summer theater-going public of coastal Hancock County. Just months before the start of the Great Depression, a group of actors…

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

… lined up, forming an area called rum row off coastal cities like Portland. Smaller vessels would buy up liquor and try to return to shore…

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

… differences throughout the past century, this coastal town's diligent, diverse, and talented residents had developed a strong communal pride and a…