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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… Hill), went along what we call the Pleasant Hill Road to Chamberlain Road, along Chamberlain to the Black Point Road, thence across the causeway…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… Ingleside, Mossledge, Sunset Cliff, and Seven Oaks. Activities of the rusticators included carriage rides, sailing, hiking, tennis, golf, and…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"The Oak Hill station was built near the bottom of Oak Hill where 44-46 Black Point Road is today. During the Civil War, the Oak Hill station was a…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"It crossed the marsh between Dunstan and Oak Hill, the current path of Route 1, and was funded by toll rates, eight cents for a horse and twenty-five…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… a station agent first at Pine Point and later at Oak Hill. Because he felt it was his duty to care for his invalid mother, it wasn’t until he was…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"A toll road across the marsh between Dunstan and Oak Hill, the Cumberland Turnpike was the first turnpike in New England. Dr."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"… identified themselves as being from Dunstan, Oak Hill, Pine Point or other neighborhood until the 1990s."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"These particular powerboats had frames of oak and hulls made from pine strips. About 26-feet-long, these boats were built to turn quickly, were very…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"Schools from Beech Ridge, Oak Hill, and Dunstan participated in the event, with one hundred and eighty-five people attending."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"… at Sweetsers, just south of the Nonesuch River; Oak Hill; Scottow, just before the marsh; Southgate, on the Portland end of Dow’s farm; Dunstan…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… stools and tables were often made out of pine or oak boards by the students' parents. By 1880, children sat in individual desks that were bolted to…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"… it was made of lampblack or tannic acid from oak trees mixed with light oil. Ink could also be made from swamp maple bark and copperas."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"He is buried in Bath at the Oak Grove Cemetery. Gershom H. Palmer opened a dry goods business in 1868, lasting at 94 Front Street until 1876."

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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… war (only fifty-five names were actually carved into the monument). A stone marks his grave next to his parents at Oak Hill Cemetery in Brewer."

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

"July 21, 1870: The railroad bridge across the river at this place is to be sustained [principally] by oak and brown ash piles…."

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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… pine, hemlock, fir, spruce, cedar with some oak on the highlands and hackmetack on the lowlands.” (History of Farmington Maine From Its Settlement…"