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Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum

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Paris Cape Historical Society

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Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"A Greek Orthodox vespers service closed the first night of the program. The President was introduced by Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"The boundary dispute began with the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution in 1783; the treaty stated that the eastern boundary of the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"After being turned away from the Vienna Philharmonic for his peculiar style of playing, Kreisler was picked up by the Berlin Philharmonic a few years…"

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

"Such ease of travel is quite recent. Before train service came to Scarborough in the 1840s, travel was by shanks’ mare, boat, horseback or stagecoach."

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

"Maine Historical Society The European history of the borderland region between what is today the American state of Maine and the Canadian province…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"Many inhabitants of the region work in those bigger cities and all must travel to one of them for shopping and entertainment."

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

"It made multiple ambiguous geographic assertions, especially about the placement of the boundary separating the yet-to-be-created province of New…"

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

"Paris, 1632. Fischer, David Hackett. "Champlain’s Dream." New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. Morris, Charles. “A Report of a Survey of the River St."

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 Treaty of Paris (1783) caused the most prolix problems in establishing the border, and subsequent US-British treaties gradually tried to make…"

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

"… of 1763, the Quebec Act (1774), Treaties of Paris (1763 and 1783), the Jay Treaty (1794), the Treaty of Ghent (1814), and the Webster-Ashburton…"

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

"The Treaty of Paris was written in 1783 ending the War with Great Britain which recognized the United States."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"… of the Revolutionary War, in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, negotiators had sketched an imaginary line through this perpetually contested and poorly…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"The Commissioners received viable proposals from Paris Academy, Gorham Seminary, Farmington Academy, and Litchfield Academy."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"Despite the aggressive competition among Island high schools and the towns, the people of MDI were proud of the Sea Siders’s accomplishment and saw…"

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."

Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"Jacques Bellissent, flute maker to the Paris Conservatory made this flute. Longfellow purchased it during his 1825 trip to Europe."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Center Baptist Church, Lincoln, ca. 1900

"He was ordained a little more than a year later, soon after the church dedication on 1 Jan., 1846. View additional information about this item on…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 3 of 3

"The dress was acquired and worn in Paris by Mrs. Howard Burr (formerly Cécile de Wasilowska of Poland), grandmother of Cecile P."

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1900-1930

"… emerged after Sergei Diagilev's Asian-inspired costumed Ballets Russes burst on the Paris scene in 1909, and later toured the United States."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"In 1763 the French and Indian Wars ended with the Paris Peace Treaty which ensured the safety of settlers from attack."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"The inhabitants of Plantation Number One were ordered by the treasurer of the new county, Henry Rust, Esq., to assemble at a legal meeting to…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… Governor Enoch Lincoln Enoch Lincoln, Paris, 1827Maine Historical Society Governor Enoch Lincoln died in 1829, a decade before the…"