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

"… tourists no longer had to endure long carriage trips to visit Scarborough beaches. By the 1870s, sixty-five trains a day brought passengers and…"

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

"The trip from Philadelphia had been slow because of contrary winds, and the captain was anxious to reach port."

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

"… on a wage scale that precluded any extra pleasure trips, and fewer people were riding the trolley to Portland for shopping."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards

"A round trip ticket to the park, from the Main Road just over 2 tenths of a mile, cost 10 cents and included free admission."

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

"… Society The Lowell homestead was on the Whittier Road, (now # 655 Whittier Road). “The orchards had 1,000 or more trees and each fall Lowell…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"… the team was harnessed and the wagon filled for a trip to White Cap in neighboring Rumford. This was the most famous berrying place around and…"

Friendship Museum

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 3: 1867-

"… Davis inaugural address, 1837 profile of Bangor, trip to Bucksport   Part 5, pages 84-107 Bangor road issues, warmest, coldest days; Bangor…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"A round trip ticket to the park, from the Main Road just over 2 tenths of a mile, cost 10 cents and included free admission."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… in 1868 when the steam boats made regular trips between Bangor and Ryder Landing. The summer tourists stayed in a boarding house/inn, named at…"

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"Mary Cheney Gould (founder of the Bagaduce Chorale), and Marcia Chapman took a trip to visit their friend Fritz Jahoda, a famous chamber musician."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… from town to town along the Penobscot from making trips to Boston when necessary. When the river froze and shipping halted, the ice was harvested…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… up to seventeen vehicles and makes multiple daily trips year round. It was now possible for islanders to take a car to the mainland, run errands…"

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

"… of acting upon the question of accepting a road, or roads, laid out to the new depot grounds by the selectmen."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"… the realer the raft on the ship had been tripped. And ugh oh it came down in the water. So we went over there and got the food from it, which was…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"The average trip across took around twenty minutes, more or less, depending on the flow of the current and how high or low the river was."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"… 16 pair of oxen in two heavy teams to make the trip to Hallowell to haul cables and fittings to New Portland."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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

"The steamboat made a daily trip year-round from Swan’s Island to Stonington, Vinalhaven, Rockland and back."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"The trip was doomed from the beginning as boats were ordered only two weeks prior to the journey and the bateaux constructed from this wood were…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… ‘plenty of ale-wives’ was an easy canoe trip from Norridgewock on the Maine Kennebec.” (History of Farmington Maine From Its Settlement to 1846…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"The fourteen-mile trip from the northern part of the island to the southern end was an all-day journey by horse and buggy."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… this time to Chile in 1854 to 1857 for a mission trip. When they returned to the United States, Charlotte attended Bangor High School in Maine."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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