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Surry by the Bay - Resources

"(editor), Penobscot The Forest, River and Bay. Island Institute, 1996. Surry's Centennial Souvenir, 1903. Varney, George J."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Our Resources

"… Affordable Property, PO Box 206, 376 West Bay Road, 734.2299 Islesboro Community Center, PO Box 265, 103 Pendleton Point Road, 734.8200…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"… to or from nearby towns on this side of Penobscot Bay such as Belfast or Camden. One could travel by steamboat from Islesboro to Rockland and…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… Captain Benjamin Church arrived in Penobscot Bay with a company of men and landed on what came to be known as 700 Acre Island, a small island near…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… of Maine dividing East and West Penobscot Bays. Early settlers arrived by various seacraft (or by sleigh over frozen water) bringing with them all…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… island of Islesboro, located in the Penobscot Bay, has a long and rich history, as one of the last coastal areas to be settled, in the mid 1760s."

Penobscot Marine Museum

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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… back from the rugged shores of a beautiful bay. No echo of human industry to break the silence of the savage region, only the red man and his wild…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… the code name Esther 74, was erected at Morgan's Bay. Surry volunteers maintained all night vigils in search of German boats and submarines."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"Bay View House Booklet, Islesboro, ca. 1920Islesboro Historical Society As was true at Ryder’s Cove, there were year-round residents at Hewes Point…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… graduated in 1874, she started to practice in the Bay Area back in California. After that she applied back to San Francisco Medical Society in…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"Schools map of Islesboro  Text by Ruth Hartley School Bell, Islesboro, ca. 1880Islesboro Historical Society After incorporating as a town in…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Map of Islesboro

"… Map of Islesboro map of Islesboro  X"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"About Us Grindle Point Lighthouse X TEAM ISLESBORO’S PROCESS From the start, Islesboro stressed student participation and community involvement."

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… to be settled by the English was the Penobscot Bay region including what is now known as the town of Blue Hill."

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"… of the Mid-Maine Coast: Blue Hill and Penobscot Bays, 1982. —(LI) O’Leary, W.M. Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"A handful of land schemes in Passamaquoddy Bay sprang up under the jurisdiction of Nova Scotia in the late 1760s and 1770s, but they were small, and…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… eight and nine merged into the "head of the bay district" in 1848. Like other schoolhouses, in the earlier years the school had had a wide age…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… called the Waldo Patent) to the west of Penobscot Bay. For these proprietors and others like them who spearheaded smaller schemes, landownership…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… of the rivers that flowed into Passamaquoddy Bay was actually the St. Croix intended in 1783. It also agreed upon the interior source (or…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"Ranco, PhD (Penobscot), Fall 2022 The collections in the Beyond Borders project are important and significant to many audiences, including, and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"“A “Labyrinth of Uncertainties”: Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women Proprietors in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… between colonists and the Wabanaki in 1736, a Penobscot couple visited an English household to relay a warning."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"… where the General Court in Boston sided with the Penobscots in the 1730s, against local settlers, because of Dummer’s Treaty."