Keywords: High Street
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Site Pages
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"… from the highway; and residents have access to a high-speed road for commuting, travel and out-of-town shopping."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Old North Church
"… Through General Knox’s involvement, a Town Meeting House was constructed in 1796 on High Street, and was the first house of worship in the town."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - CONTACT
"… PROJECT c/o McArthur Public Library 270 Main Street Biddeford, Maine 04005 U.S.A. BY EMAIL: reference@mcarthur.lib.me.us *Please include "BIDDEFORD…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Cities of Smoke and Soot
"… buildings, businesses and even entire city streets. The widespread destruction that these blazes caused often required the assistance of fire…"
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"… April 3rd, Biddeford and Saco rejoiced in the streets as the news of Lee’s surrender spread like wildfire."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The MCHP Experience: In Our Own Words
"… Parish Meetinghouse and do the Museum in the Streets. The students were great; they outperformed themselves." -Raymond Gaudette, President…"
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"… and opened small businesses up and down Main Street. Their businesses included restaurants, groceries, and clothing, paper, and fancy goods shops…"
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"The quarry on South Street was opened to supply stone for the Western Division Railroad built in 1872."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Fales Edgarton House
"The Fales families on High Street above the Mill Creek/River joined him soon after. Capes on Elliot Street, Thomaston, Maine 2008Thomaston…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 604-650
"… Annie Martin Junior Martin Elmer Martin Bangor High School Division Street School Joseph E. Littlefield Bangor Girls First Select School Third…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4
"The Strathglass residence children attended Chisholm School (the former high school). Those living in the Virginia section of town had the Virginia…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates
"Gilman High played in Neighborhood House. When the new Mount Desert High School opened in 1950, their team, the Mustangs, had a real court to play on."
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Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools
"… A school was built in Guilford on the corner of High Street and Blaine Avenue. This building was a frame structure that also was destroyed by fire."
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Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2
"… French, Park and Center Streets were rebuilt, along with a synagogue on Center Street. Franklin Street, Bangor, 1911Bangor Public Library"
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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5
"The high school was built at 9 Campus Drive in Guilford. When the new PCHS opened in 1969, the old high school on School Street became the Guilford…"
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Historic Hallowell - Classical and Scientific Academy
"… of youth of both sexes, of the grade and scope of high school. It was a boarding as well as day school."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Cunningham School
"… Society X X The original Presque Isle High School was built in 1910 on the corner of what are now Blake and Third Streets."
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Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill
"It was being built between Second Street and Water Street. It was created by George Robinson and backed by Justin E. Smith, John P. Flagg, Eben G."
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Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2
"… Society Here’s a view looking southwest on Water Street at its junction with School Street. The towered corner building housed the Post Office in…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865
"… wrote of the building of the church, "Land being high and the society being in majority poor it was difficult to purchase a desirable lot but a mud…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Additions and New Wing - 1824 to 1843
"… individual cell size was 7’ long by 4’ wide by 7’ high, the area between the outer brick walls and the cells being 11’ wide and 25’ high."
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Life on a Tidal River - About Us
"History, Bangor High School David Bergquist, Local Historian Debe Averill, Team Leader, Library/Media Specialist, Bangor High School Cooperating…"