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Portland Water District

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"With the introduction of the Portland Herald, Senator Hale and his Daily Press began to feel pressure from their lower advertising revenues."

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"The west line, also a part of the south line of New Portland, is the county line between Franklin and Somerset counties."

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

"… going north and one for the traveler going south. For many years the bridge lighted by lanterns and when the lights appeared the children knew that…"

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

"Foss, “The History of the New Portlands in Maine”, it states that “West New Portland has a landmark that should not be forgotten: the so called Wire…"

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South Portland Historical Society

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South Portland Public Library

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Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… I forget the loving kindness I received there.” A South Portland resident writing in 1964 went even further."

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"… this running gun battle from Scarborough to South Portland. Prohibition cartoon, ca. 1925Maine Historical Society Prohibition's…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"Home of Mrs. Lillian M.W. Stevens, Portland, ca. 1910Greater Portland Landmarks Home of Lillian M. N. Stevens Postcard, ca."

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders

"… in the north to the palmetto groves in the south. We verily believe that the amendment for national constitutional prohibition is destined to…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"… (1922), the Fidelity Trust Company Bank in South Portland (1928), the Canal Bank in Portland (1930), and the Fidelity Trust Company Bank in…"

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Early Maine Photography - Studio Portraits

"… Portrait of a young woman with a straw hat, South Berwick, ca. 1865Maine Historical Society Six examples of Samuel Carleton’s artistic…"

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"A South Paris tintype of about 1860 shows eleven members of the Bemis family standing adjacent to the store of merchant Hiram Hubbard."

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

"Beginning in the 1860s, the Portland Railroad Company operated horse-drawn cars on rails that ran through Scarborough and other area towns."

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Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"Charles Thompson of South Berwick, ca. 1850Maine Historical Society Like Captain Patten, Captain Israel Gross’s image is preserved in a…"

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

"The train traveled from Portland stopping at stations in Scarborough and other towns on its way to South Berwick where it connected with the Boston &…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1870 to 1915

"Today Giant Cement of South Carolina, owned by Spanish company Cementos Portland Valderrivas, operates Dragon Products, the only cement manufacturing…"

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Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"… including Portland, Deering, Cape Elizabeth, South Portland, Berwick Academy, and Sanford parade down Park Avenue in Portland as part of a band…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources

"… Eaton, Cyrus History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, Hallowell, ME: Masters, Smith & Co., Printers 1865 Eaton, Cyrus Annals of Warren…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources

"… Eaton, Cyrus History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, Hallowell, ME: Masters, Smith & Co., Printers 1865 Eaton, Cyrus Annals of Warren…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources

"… Eaton, Cyrus History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, Hallowell, ME: Masters, Smith & Co., Printers 1865 Eaton, Cyrus Annals of Warren…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources

"… Eaton, Cyrus History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, Hallowell, ME: Masters, Smith & Co., Printers 1865 Eaton, Cyrus Annals of Warren…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"In the heyday of the trolley, one could travel south as far as Philadelphia or north to Bangor and beyond using connecting lines."