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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Also, the Alameda, a large entertainment center on the south side of Centre Street between Water and Washington Streets was built in 1882."

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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"Fox farms were a very large business. Fox farms were like having a farm with all kinds of animals on it."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"Today there is one large post office on Main Street that services the whole town. A train from lower Maine and Massachusetts runs along the…"

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"This time it had been snapped into two large sections. One section rested in a place down stream. The second section kept on going and went down over…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… station provided mail service and goods for the large tourist population that stayed at hotels and inns of Scarborough and Higgins Beach and Prouts…"

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"The inhabitants then numbered about 56, a large part of whom were state paupers. It was decided that to rid the island of its population, and to…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"So great was the demand for the large herring preferred by the smokehouses that Lubec began sending vessels to the Magdelen Islands in the quest for…"

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Acadian Archives

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… for merchants, while its second level provided a large hall that hosted plays, concerts, visiting speakers, political and religious meetings, and…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… acreage known as "back lots." The owners of these large pieces of property needed roads to get to their holdings to start cutting the valuable…"

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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"They lived in two large camps near the site. The waterfront was very busy with vessels carrying construction materials arriving daily."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"Set from a spark from a horseshoe, the large fire originated at the Sagadahock House on the northwest corner of Front and Centre Street."

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

"Bartlett and Plummer turned out large quantities of long and short lumber. The hardwood flooring in Chase Memorial Hall was sawed in this mill."

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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… graded to small stone to larger stone to very large stone on the other end. “The wave action must have done that over the years,” said Chandler."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"From 1839 to 1859, Presque Isle grew large enough to support a hotel, a school, newspapers, churches, and various stores; moreover the extension of…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Alice was raised in a large family of motivated people and became very motivated as well. She was born on August 6, 1916, in Brownville, Maine, a…"

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… of a new tissue mill (a mill that creates large rolls of thin paper that is then sent off to other manufacturing plants to be converted into a…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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