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

"Thomaston Historical Society Mr. Jordan, Williams and others, must be employed to break into the north side of the west end of the quarry."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"… a large-scale shipbuilding business at Fort Wharf on lower Knox Street. Chapman and Flint laid out a new yard on the Narrows (a narrowing of the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… within one third of a mile of their principal fort, Magruder, while they peppered away at us all day with shot and shell, some of which struck and…"

Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"Paine $250.00 in 1836 for the manufacture of a rosewood piano forte and an additional $8.25 for a music stool, equaling about $8,500 in 2024."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4

"Fort Bragg, CA: Mendocino Lithographers. Gold, Susan Dudley, ed. Scarborough at 350: Linking the Past to the Present."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"While a new fort was built at the western side of Garrison Cove, the settlers lived aboard their ship."

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"… Makers, Chair Makers, Organ Builders, Piano Forte Makers, Turners, and Plane Makers. One side reads, "Our Cabinet, although composed of different…"

Surry by the Bay - Resources

"… Lane, Surry Historical Society, Spring 1995 INTERNET Fort Knox.maineguide.com/history of Penobscot.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maine"

Music in Maine - Country Music

"… Historical Society Dick Curless (1932-1995) from Fort Fairfield rose to stardom with his 1965 single, A Tombstone Every Mile that highlights his…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… River from Prospect to Buckport, just upriver of Fort Knox. Otherwise they had to travel all the way to Bangor and down US Route 1A to Surry."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections

"… to provide feedback please email project manager Henry Caiazzo at hcaiazzo@mainehistory.org Transcription is ongoing..."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"… and Ann Woodside, May 14, 1738, Microfilm of the Henry Knox Papers, vol. 40, item 31. 3. James Berry and Rachel Berry Deed to Proprietors (1716)…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"… Fall 2022 Lisa Brooks (Missisquoi Abenaki) Henry S. Poler '59 Presidential Teaching Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College…"

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

"Company (Check that HENRY) He remained active in overseeing his property until he was past eighty years old."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 7, pages 114-134

"Ingalls William Severance Fuller Orff Henry Holden Willington Farm Barracks Col. Daniel White Ed Getchell Fort Point Light For Pownal Howard L."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 4, pages 57-76

"… Plot to burn New York Glassblowers exhibition Fort Sumter Capture of Richmond, Petersburg Lee's surrender Bangor victory "parade" Gorham L."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Fort Pownall now guarded the entrance to the Penobscot Valley; stalwart and hardy settlers began to settle where the two rivers met."