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Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield

"… different practices including a dentist and a doctor. This gave the people of Buckfield a way to get everything they needed while still remaining…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… department, sawmills, churches, schools, parks, doctors, golf course, social buildings, and garages. The Goodwin Houses, Ridlonville, ca."

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Cummings. The doctor built this island farm in 1856. The previous year Solomon Hanscomb and his two sons discovered a jug filled with fifty-two…"

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

"… services as we benefit from today: no nearby doctors, hospitals, grocery stores or department stores."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"Dr. Robert Southgate Robert Southgate: doctor, lawyer, judge, gentleman farmer, and businessman. According to family tradition, in 1771 Dr."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"BellStrong Historical Society A Legendary Doctor After Strong’s first physician, Dr. John Cottle, retired in 1816, a series of doctors worked in the…"

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"Dr. Hutchins was both doctor and friend to everyone in the North Village. Although he was born in Lexington, he was always thought of as a New…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"Small, a Deer Isle man who served as a doctor on Swan’s Island between the years 1891 and 1903, points out in his island history that the name…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Northern islanders rowed to Castine for medical help. The earliest known doctor to practice on Islesboro was Dr."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Women cared for the sick and dying. Even when a doctor was eventually nearby, they continued in this role."

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

"Haigis was the only doctor in Scarborough. He served thirty-one years as the school physician and health officer for Scarborough."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… periodic transportation, as well as teachers, doctors, and preachers when needed. In some of the coldest winters, the Sunbeam was the islander’s…"

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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 3 of 3

"Burr’s father was a doctor at Madigan, and his mother was the director of nurses at the hospital. Burr attended the parish school, and remembered…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… a livery stable, Bee's Store, and the local doctor. Soon an electric light company was set up that could handle 5,000 lamps."

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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"In the life cycle of the Abenakis, the way doctors and people delivered babies was very different from today."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… dozen stores and the usual number of lawyers and doctors, one public house, which we used for Provost Marshal’s office, and a number of mechanic…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"… died to help out How did you get medication? Doctors were around town. They would come to the house; you wouldn’t have to go to an office like you…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"Sweet moved from Salem, Massachusetts because his doctor advised him that the salt air would make him well."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… the cat into bed to keep warm on a cold winter’s night, facing tax and doctor bills, trying to find credit from the stressed local merchants."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"… of Commerce mounted a sustained effort to attract doctors, dentists, attorneys, and other professionals to town."

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"It was owned by a Portland doctor and his family. X Coaster American, probably New York, 1855-1860 Silver and birds eye maple; silver…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"Charlotte Blake Brown was a early woman prominent doctor. And John B. Curtis is a distinguished business man in history because of his invention of…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… pavilion for movies and dances, a starch factory, doctors’ offices, a rake factory, a hotel, and many other businesses came and went."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"Farmington became a busy hub for noted doctors and attorneys. The banks, stores and insurance companies flourished."