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Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 2 of 3

"The Gray Gable Tea room, the garage, living quarters, and over-night camps of J.O. Buzzles were completely flooded."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"… who wished to relive their war years found quarters in their tents. Also the railroads offered scheduled special trains along with rare discounted…"

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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… of the household goods to the summer or winter quarters. By the age of 10, boys and girls were skilled canoeists who used paddles fashioned by…"

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

"… with it, and the testimony of a century and a quarter is " that the place is beautiful to look upon. " In 1765 Col."

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Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"There were so many influenza cases in the Italian quarter that St. Peter’s Church opened and filled with beds for people quarantining infected…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"In addition many former soldiers left our communities to settle elsewhere, including lands in the western United States."

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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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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… local governments, was disrupted in the third quarter of the seventeenth century by a series of conflicts with Native Americans."

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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