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Oakfield Grange 414

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Music in Maine - Community Music

"Grange Music Franklin Grange Hall, Bryant Pond, ca. 1892Maine Historical Society 'State of Maine, My State of Maine,' 1913Maine Historical…"

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Music in Maine - Country Music

"… that played a few times a year at our local grange hall. Their instruments were horns and drums, and their music, for the most part, was the big…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3

"The altar in a Grange hall usually displays an open Bible, agricultural tools, and an American flag."

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Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… meeting spaces, theaters, town halls, and granges. A 1991 study showed at least 66 opera houses existed in Maine, from Presque Isle’s Perry Opera…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"… village in the schoolhouse that later became the Grange Hall, located on the road now known as Lambert Hill Road."

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Alexander-Crawford Historical Society

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Monson Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… now fraternal and farmer's groups, such as the Grange, which reached its peak in the early part of the century, created an enlarged social…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3

"… the next forty years, it served as the Masonic Hall of the Davis Lodge, A.F. & A.M. Today, it is privately owned.Strong Historical Society Masonic…"

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Skowhegan Community History - About the Project

"… leaders in a local effort to save their town's Grange Hall. They have created a historic walking tour that includes a map and multimedia…"

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5

"… the road from the Wharff house is the Valley Grange Hall and seen through the back kitchen window, the Guilford Center Baptist Church."

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Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… old Grange Hall burned at the site of the present Grange Hall and then, of course, the Bar Harbor fires in 1947 resulted in deep concern on the…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"… of veterans sat around a table or out in the hall and sang old war songs, talked about war experiences, and swapped accounts of their deeds."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"Wescustogo Grange Hall PlateNorth Yarmouth Historical Society Agricultural Societies Farming families benefitted from the establishment of the…"

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

"A good blacksmith was invaluable. A dance hall provided entertainment, as did traveling theater companies, minstrel shows and the movie theater…"

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

"Sometime in the 1970s it became the Fernwood Grange Hall. A town meeting was held on September 19, 1972 at which time the town authorized the…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"… of the Soldiers Home in Washington Precinct, Hall County, Nebraska. After the War many Maine residents had moved West in search of a better life or…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"It was later renamed the Swift River Grange and located on Roxbury Road; it is now the Free Store. Mothercraft and Junior Mothercraft were…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Members of Hampden’s Grange are proud to state that it was the first in Maine. Another first is the piano that General Crosby is said to have brought…"

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Westport Island History Committee

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… running through its center featuring a town hall, grange hall, two stores, churches, a blacksmith's shop, a schoolhouse, a boarding house and two…"

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

"… groups included the Odd Fellows, the Fernwood Grange, the Farm Bureau, and the Willing Workers. Bridge Clubs were also popular."

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Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… the street from the current Guilford Valley Grange. From that time on the town has always been generous in supplying funds for educational support…"