Keywords: Mines Road
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4
"In early 1880 there were 29 mining companies in Blue Hill. By the end of that summer 10 remained. Some ran out of capital."
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street
"… numerous gristmills, paper mills, three silver mines, and a foundry. Farmland dominated the rural area to the village’s west."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History
"… Niagara One of the world’s only moontide springs Mines that once produced some of the nations’s finest mica The mine that produced the world’s…"
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Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century
"… dumps would frequently result in a gold mine find of old metal, bottles, cans and rubber tires."
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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"There were also two mining companies, the Blue Hill Bay Company and the East Surry Company. Despite the town's many businesses however, a worldwide…"
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Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen
"… Queen Susie (Knight) Calder was born on Lead Mine Road, the oldest girl in a family of 12 children."
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"… Memorial Library 1850 – 1900 1860 • Lead mines established on South Bay in North Lubec and in West Lubec 1861 • 200 Lubec men, 18 to 40, entered…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village
"… where a sumptuous dinner was served up in a “mine host’s” best style. As the party were about to start out, Capt."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill
"Students in front of the Mines school, Blue Hill, 1905Blue Hill Historical Society Schoolhouses There are no records of when the first school was…"
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"Lead mines were dug in West Lubec and on South Bay. War and Trade In the midst of prosperity came the outbreak of Civil War and, in 1861, over 200…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians
"He was even in the silver and coal mining business in Maine. In 1880, Curtis was in the farming business near Gothenburg, Nebraska."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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