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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

Rural Schools Booklet of the Museum Cover: From original water color by C. Robert TylerFarmington Historical Society As Farmington reached the…

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

The Sailors’ Memorial Museum is still in existence, welcoming both visitors and residents at the ferry dock, and is one of the few remaining…

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

Now a museum, the site is on the National Register of Historic Places. As jobs were lost and once thriving businesses closed the town’s population…

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

Smillie of the U. S. National Museum in Washington, D. C. details the process of canning. The first step was to cut off heads and tails, and remove…

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

The Collection-Cole Land Transportation Museum. Bangor: Furbush-Roberts Printing Company, 1998. Print. Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial Field Book.