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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"A second rail line, the Aroostook Valley Rail Road (AVR), was completed ca. 1910. Winter Carnival arrivals, New Sweden, 1936New Sweden…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… Farmington, the terminus of the Maine Central Rail Road, developed a cattle yard, creamery (Pictur-of W. Farm."

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War Resources

"Small, Harold A. The Road to Richmond: the Civil War letters of Major Abner R. Small. New York: Fordham University Press, 2000. Smith, Ned."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Plan of North End of Bangor, 1844

"… this "Plan of the North End as it was from the Rail Road Bridge to Nath Harlows March 11th 1844." Martin (1823-1904), an accountant, shopkeeper…"

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Maine Railroads

"… electric railroad known as the Aroostook Valley Rail Road, or AVR. It also had its own train station."

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"He would rough out the roads in the woods. While doing this, he noticed sap on a fallen spruce. His father would take the strips of the resin and…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway

"… Railway Lithograph of Green Mountain Rail Road TrainGreat Harbor Maritime Museum In the 1880s railways were one of the most popular modes of…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin store, Center Street, Bangor, 1862

"… both coppies before me now." The store was by the Rail Road Bridge. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History

"They would tell the story of how he could lift a rail road axle and turn it all the way around by himself. Source material from Joyce Landeen"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… carnations and snapdragons that were shipped by rail to markets in Boston and Bangor. The business ran from 1927-1959, operated successively by…"

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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"The Rail Road comes to West Farmington By the 1850’s, there was “such prosperity and contentment” that no one was selling their farm."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… designed to allow shop owners to add hitching rails for their patrons’ horses if they wished. In her memoir, Down Memory Lane, Emily Phillips…"

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"Many of these damages occurred along the rail line, interrupting the only rail link between Vanceboro and Bangor."

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Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"When the rail line was abandoned and the tracks taken up, it removed the natural barrier surrounding the fair grounds."

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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… on the right looks over the temporary parapet (railing) of the bridge down onto the Lubec waterfront, still an active herring/sardine economy…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"Temple Crittenden) Today, many of the existing rail beds have been converted into heavily-used recreational trails."

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Acadian Archives

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