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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad E.H. Lowell, West Farmington, Maine This stencil was used to mark crates and…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - General Henry Knox Museum

"General Henry Knox Museum Montpelier, the General Henry Knox Museum www.knoxmuseum.org X General Henry Knox Museum PO Box 326 Thomaston, ME…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"Additionally, all nine of Maine's senators elected that spring were separationists. With this incredible momentum, by May 1819 the question of…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"… residents from across Maine sent petitions to the General Court in Massachusetts demanding a vote on separation."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2

"[6] Banks, Ronald F., Maine Becomes a State: The Movement to Separate Maine from Massachusetts, (Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press), 13."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"Because Republicans had generally led the push for separation while Federalists had opposed it, it was Republicans who overwhelmingly attended the…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"Finally, in 1820, Maine received its statehood under the Missouri Compromise—but this did not come without a moral dilemma, and deep ethical…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Varney, George A., A Gazetteer of the State of Maine, Boston: Russell, 1881. “When Lubec Was Number Eight”, Lubec Herald articles transcribed by…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"The Federalist majority argued that because so many Maine citizens did not vote in May, the vote could not accurately depict the sentiment of the…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Turn of the Century to the War of 1812

"… Widgery—got the question of separation before the General Court. On February 9, 1807, the upcoming Massachusetts gubernatorial elections were also…"

Skowhegan Community History - Lakewood Theater

"… should always value for its entertainment and its general greatness. Without Lakewood Theater, Skowhegan and Madison might be just ordinary towns…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"Maine. Adjutant General. Augusta (Me.) : Stevens & Sayward, printers to the state, 1862- 1867. (C) Annual report of the municipal officers of the…"

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"Our island movie In the winter of 1775, General Benedict Arnold led his revolutionary army up the Kennebec River to Quebec City."

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… rules forced the closing of our local brush dump, general assistance expenditures hit an all time high of $54,000, and soon thereafter, Burt’s…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… the conflict between the natives, who had been generally welcoming, and the European settlers in New England became known as King Philip’s War."

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

"From 1765 through 1880 our climate was generally cool, interspersed with short periods of more moderate, as well as more severe, conditions."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"They opened a general store in the early 1900s. The Stockholm museum was originally the lumber store."

Washburn-Norlands Living History Center

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"Lieut. General William Pepperrell, ca. 1740Maine Historical Society During the fight warriors burned two mills and a house in the area to try and…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… trip from Norridgewock on the Maine Kennebec.” (History of Farmington Maine From Its Settlement to 1846, Thomas Parker) The Carrabassett has long…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"One of them is the present Beal’s General Store. In the late-1800s, this store was operated by Albert and Washington Daggett, and was known as…"

Maine Medical Center Archives

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Maine State Archives

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