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Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"94 Front Street By Kyle Hietala The Building Front Street, in Bath, Maine has been one of the most densely packed business areas throughout the…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"Welcome What do you get when you combine Bath history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath Middle School…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"Davenport Memorial and City Hall Text by Rebecca Black, Christie Duffy, Courtney McKinney, and Brook Mitchell 7th grade students at Bath Middle…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources

"American Merchant Ships General Publishing Co. Ltd, Printer 1987 Rockland Courier Gazette Newspaper clippings, documents, deeds, manuscripts and…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources

"American Merchant Ships General Publishing Co. Ltd, Printer 1987 Rockland Courier Gazette Newspaper clippings, documents, deeds, manuscripts and…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources

"American Merchant Ships General Publishing Co. Ltd, Printer 1987 Rockland Courier Gazette Newspaper clippings, documents, deeds, manuscripts and…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources

"American Merchant Ships General Publishing Co. Ltd, Printer 1987 Rockland Courier Gazette Newspaper clippings, documents, deeds, manuscripts and…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3

"… Public Library Matthew Cobb was the principal merchant in Biddeford during these years and had a large store until he removed from the area in…"

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Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"Sumner and Co.; Staples & Son, general merchant; F.Y. Trefry, postmaster and merchant in South Lubec; F.M."

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Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"Hallowell’s ship-owning merchants, anxious to protect their investments by manning their vessels with capable officers and crews, established a…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"Symbolic of the last days of this boom in shipping was the “Reine Marie Stewart,” perhaps the best remembered locally-built vessel today."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870

"Thomaston ships made regular runs between England and the south in the cotton export trade and, as a result of close business associations, many…"

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Brick Store Museum

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… shipbuilders in Blue Hill, along with 8 shipping merchants, 5 ship joiners, 3 blacksmiths (who fashioned the iron fittings), 1 rigger, 1 caulker…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"It punished American merchants in the process by prohibiting trading. However, Paine surreptitiously continued trading at great risk and was so…"

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"… the largest ship owner in Maine and a successful merchant. His business interests included real estate, banking, and cotton manufacturing."

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Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

"Lincoln merchants would put information in the newspaper to help their sales. Sales people would have papers outside of the Lincoln House Hotel about…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"Access to ship transportation in Yarmouth was essential, as trains hadn’t yet come to the interior. The Town Hall, Masonic Lodge, North Yarmouth…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… board foot year, and six years later lumber merchants shipped double this amount of lumber from Bangor's port."

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… the British 1815 • Jabez Mowry and other Eastport merchants relocate to Lubec • Post office established in Lubec."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"He also worked for a ship chandlery for about seven years, by which time, in his own words, he was "no doubt ..."

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… Jabez Mowry and several other prominent Eastport merchants who had long profited through their smuggling activities, came under increased scrutiny…"

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

"Stevens “ “ “ J.P. Churchell & Son Merchant A. Colman “ Smith & Bunker “ B.F. Kimball Trader Josiah Jenkins Carrabassett House J.B. & B.F."

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… later went door-to-door in Portland looking for merchants to sell the new “State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum.” The first to manufacture chewing gum…"