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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Eureka Hall, Stockholm
"Eureka Hall, Stockholm Eureka Hall X This building is now known to all of us as a nice family, sit-down restaurant in downtown Stockholm, Maine."
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture
"… building at various times housed a movie theater-hall-basketball court, bowling alley, pool hall, barber shop, variety store, town jail, and town…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry
"… Stockholm to become the industrial center of the Colony. Logs could be floated, and steam-driven factories were set up along the river banks."
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Olof Nylander, 1864-1943
"… of the natural history of the Swedish Colony and the surrounding Aroostook County communities."
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm
"Work Cited: www.geocities.com/mscguide/sthis.html, Maine Swedish Colony, 5/24/06 www.mainememory.net, 5/25/06"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine
"The Eureka Club and Eureka Hall Once the bridge was rebuilt, sidewalks were added and gravel roads were made."
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"Music and colonialism Europeans began settling in Wabanaki Homelands about 400 years ago, incorporating music into religious conversion in attempts…"
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Music in Maine - Military Marching Bands
"… bands in 1821, but they have existed since the colonial era. After the Civil War, Congress stopped funding military bands that provided music to…"
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"… of Jewish people lived in Maine during colonial times. Beginning in the 1870s, Jewish people arrived in Maine in greater numbers and began setting…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"Though short-lived, that British colony marked the beginning of more permanent settlement along the western side of the river in what became known as…"
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"… French Acadie, and where to draw the line between colonial Massachusetts and Nova Scotia. Some of the earliest documents from 1764 pertain to areas…"
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"In Saco in the evening the Town Hall was thrown open, which was packed by a joyful crowd. Speeches, singing and cheers were the order of the evening…"
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"… Dock Square, opposite the south side of Faneuil Hall, the Pejepscot lands left to him by his father, as well as other dubious land titles on…"
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"… to them at the City Opera House and other halls and venues downtown. Concerts, minstrel and vaudeville shows, oratories, chorales and dramatics…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4
"The so-called rusticators came to Blue Hill's summer colony on steamships that met their passengers at the railhead in Rockland."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone
"… 22, 1955, Miss Stone was acknowledged by the Colonial Daughters Chapter of the Daughters of America as a ‘true pioneer of education.’ In June of…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 4 of 4
"… horizontal stripes, representing the original 13 colonies, with 50 stars for our fifty states Today, the flag hangs inside each classroom in the…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries
"… meat, fish and produce for the expanding summer colony. During peak season delivery trucks hurried about to the summer cottages and large yachts…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"… a hundred and fifty years before conditions in colonial New England would allow any attempt at permanent settlement."
