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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… in 1789; Daniel Lunt of Falmouth in 1790; John Fox of Portland in 1792; in 1794 to Isaac Thompson, Joshua Eddy, and William Thompson, all of…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… along side his father and brothers, Charles, John, and Walter. His father passed away in May of 1872 when Arthur was only 15."

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

"John Elliott built a mill on Lemon Stream at the Great Works in the West Village in 1803, taking advantage of the abundant forests."

Bangor Public Library

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

"None were injured except John Cowett, whose leg was badly broken below the knee, the bone being split and forced through the flesh."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"According to John Gilman, the author of the business history of the canneries, 1952 was the year the key cans were introduced."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"… Family, the Drake Family, the Cummings Family, John and Pat Selicious, Lynn and Harry Anderson, and photographer Steve Maines."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… Francis Fassett (1823-1908) and his apprentice, John Calvin Stevens (1855-1940). Fassett was the single most important individual in the creation…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"John (Wolostoq) River and its tributaries, which was made especially vexing by reference to a supposedly definitive “highlands” that separated…"

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

"… the map of the interior canoe route between the St. John (Wolostoq) and Penobscot rivers that Chief Francis Joseph Neptune shared with Pagan on…"

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

"“A Report of a Survey of the River St. Johns and of the Coast from thence to Passamaquoddy,” enclosed in Michael Francklin to the Board of Trade, 22…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"John River, and state interests mobilized, especially in the US Senate, to reject the proposal, although it had other more pro-American dimensions."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… years, Acadia, the land between the Penobscot and St. Croix rivers, was inhospitable to settlement due to disputes and battles between Great…"

Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"Côté worked as the organist and choir director at St. Louis Church in Auburn. He sang the tenor lead in several Lewiston operas and was an early…"

Music in Maine - Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis

"… this included seven colleges: Nasson (closed), St. Frances College (UNE), University of Maine Portland and Gorham (USM), Westbrook Junior (UNE)…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"Croix Island, 1797 Used by the British Secretary Ward Chapman of the St. Croix Commission (1796-1798) to help settle the dispute over the Northeast…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1919 to 1934: The Nation Follows Maine Into Prohibition

"Liquor was smuggled from Quebec, St Pierre and Miquelon (French Islands off Newfoundland). For Maine and Massachusetts residents, buying a bottle was…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"The French Island of St. Pierre & Miquellon became a major entreport for Canadian and American rum runners."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"Croix River. In the Passamaquoddy language the river was known as the Skutik River. Several testimonies were given about the location of the true St."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"… jurisdictions between Cape Cod and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In addition to Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay proper, and New Hampshire, British…"

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

"“Imaginary Lines: Transcending the St. Croix Legacy in the Northeast Borderlands,” Native America and Indigenous Studies, 1.1 (Spring 2014), 49-64."

Music in Maine - MAKE

"St. Sauveur mission, Mount Desert, ca. 1866Maine Historical Society Jesuit missionary Eugene Vetromile (1819-1881), from Italy, ministered to…"

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

"He was then captured on June 24,1864, at St. Mary’s Church in Virginia. He died on October 6, 1864, in Andersonville Prison of scorbutus."