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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - About the Project

"… and archives reading and scanning documents and newspaper reports. Our project opened in February of 2009 in the gallery at the Salt Institute for…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"… of Maine Historical Society This scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photographs chronicling the progress of the W.C.T.U."

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Neal Dow

"1860 Newspaper clipping Collections of Maine Historical Society Coll. 951, vol. 53 Elder Benjamin D."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"Boston newspapers from 1878 were used as underlayment for the old kitchen floor. Sailcloth and old mailing labels addressed to A.C."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… in years as early as 1853 (Franklin Journal Newspaper) The Willows The Willows Hotel, Farmington, ca."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… a local compilation of highlights from newspaper articles related to Farmington, ME 1831 to 1909 National Register of Historic Places record of…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… became of these three magnificent pieces? A 1937 newspaper item states that the art went into the new 1911 bank. Since then, no trace."

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

"In a series of newspaper articles published a hundred years later, William Hinckley tells the fascinating story of the Blue Hill mining frenzy of the…"

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

"… to town in 1960 and started Blue Hill's first newspaper since a short-lived attempt in the 19th Century."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"Small published his history, the island received newspapers the same day that they were issued. The steamboat made a daily trip year-round from…"

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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"Newspapers throughout New England had a field day exposing the fraud. The August 1, 1898 edition of The Boston Herald reported, “Never did a…"

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Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… 1 dentist, 1 lawyer, 2 undertakers, and 1 newspaper; the Guilford Citizen. In 1903 the United States Post Office was located in the Braeburn…"

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5

"… Guilford had the railroad, woolen mills, a newspaper, and even a cinema. What the town needed was a library."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Regional History Reprints. Originally published in 1846. Franklin Chronicle Newspapers. 1840-1918. Various magazine articles and maps."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"Finally, on May 31, the Eastern Argus newspaper reported that the troops were readying to leave. They were visited by Gov."

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Pejepscot Historical Society

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Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… information was taken from the Franklin Chronicle Newspaper copies of which are available on microfilm at the University of Maine Library here in…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… grew large enough to support a hotel, a school, newspapers, churches, and various stores; moreover the extension of the military road to Presque…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… business, he happened to read the morning local newspaper only to discover that while he had been gone, his mill had been completely destroyed by…"