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The General Henry Knox Museum

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"… beauty,” Crosby’s affectionate nickname for native brook trout, in Mt. Blue Stream. Cornelia Crosby, Moosehead Lake, ca."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"Later, General Charles Wilson, a Mexico native who became a successful lawyer in Rhode Island, purchased the property and added a carriage house, a…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"A native of Paris Hill, Hamlin moved to Hampden as a young man to practice law. A Jacksonian Democrat, he began his political career in the Maine…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… on the use of New England vernacular forms and native materials such as wood shingles and local stone."

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"Alexander, a talented young Boston native, who practiced in Portland from 1851 to 1863. The Maine Historical Society owns Alexander’s 1856 rendering…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1919 to 1934: The Nation Follows Maine Into Prohibition

"… Americans, Prohibition opponents like New York native Pauline Sabin, leader of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders

"… state and nation, as a way of preserving their native culture through traditional beer or wine making."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… name “Brule-Cote,” meaning “Burnt-hill” in his native French, presumably due to evidence of past fires on the island."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"Donald Alison Bryant, a native of Mt. Desert Island, spent most of 30 years working very closely with David Rockefeller and his family in the small…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"It is unclear when the Native Americans first came to the area they referred to as the “great intervale”."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… the architect of the Courthouse, was a Bath native who became a famous architect. Mr. Fassett was born on June 25, 1823, and he died on November 1…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"Francis Fassett, a Bath native born in 1823, died in Portland in 1908. Fassett who was the architect for the Church Block, also designed the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"… was named after Luther Libby who was a Maine native. It was a four-story building containing eight rooms in which the men slept on the floor."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"(T) "A Timeline of Native American Culture." Home: The story of Maine. Maine Public Broadcasting Network. Web. 1 Jan 2010."

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830-1890, 1996. Rowe, W.H. The Maritime History of Maine: Three Centuries of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"… after John Neptune, Governor of the Penobscot Native American tribe. The steamboat was owned by the Penobscot Navigation Company."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"So plentiful were lobsters that Native-Americans used them for crop fertilizer and fish bait, as well as food for themselves; early settlers…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… Anne Chase Akers Allen Another interesting Strong native was Elizabeth Anne Chase, born in Strong, October 9, 1832."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"… like that of many Maine towns, starts with Native American settlers. In 1780, an Indian named Pierpole moved to the area that is now Strong."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… describes her childhood summers playing with native island kids: "When I was a child… we did have cars but if you went across the island to go to a…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… identity of Swan’s Island and its residents, both native-born and those who have adopted it as their home, continues to be shaped by the stretch of…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… town in the county furnished a larger number of native born citizens, in proportion to its population, than Rumford, and none had more men killed…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Edmund Muskie Those crazy Coke and Mentos guys Native Americans—in this case the Abenakis—flourished in the western foothills for millennia before…"