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Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"Josh Shaw "What if the post office never existed?" The postal service refers to the post offices and mailing."

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Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… navigation, agricultural societies, India trade, turnpikes, physics, brick machines etc., bridges, bank stock, Society To Direct Foreigners…"

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Historic Hallowell - Post Office and Fire Station

"Post Office and Fire Station Hallowell Post OfficeHubbard Free Library Judy Longfellow, Post Woman written by Sam Gilbert Q How old were you…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Post Office, Lincoln, Built in 1856

"Post Office, Lincoln, Built in 1856 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The Lincoln Post Office was in the Plumly…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Boy at Bangor post Civil War parade, 1865

"Boy at Bangor post Civil War parade, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - JP Cilley Ledger From Post

"JP Cilley Ledger From Post A Brief Timeline of Jonathan Prince Cilley’s Life and Service Record § Born on December 29, 1835."

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Acadian Archives

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"But the post-war years brought some hope for the future in the form of a renewed interest in historic preservation."

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains

"Post Office, which is on Winthrop Street and still stands today. Unlike most of the sailors of Hallowell, when Agry was only eighteen, he was the…"

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Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… location necessitated the construction of a new Post Office in Hallowell. His business at one point occupied an entire city block, employed 100…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"… vessel Lyon from England to establish a trading post on lower Wadsworth Street, specifically for trading with the Wawenock, Tarratine and Penobscot…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"… a settlement of families in the vicinity of the trading post in 1719. Land patents were only profitable to their owners if families were enticed to…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… industries, resuming the quarrying of lime and trading at Limestone Hill and the wharves at the river."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Fales Edgarton House

"… Society There are no remains of the early 1630 trading post at the base of Wadsworth Street, and only a handful of 18th century homes survive…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"When the building opened in 1858, Joseph Berry was Collector of Customs and Joseph C. Snow was U.S. Postmaster. The U.S. Post Office moved to its…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… into a cash economy based around the European trading posts and ended the highly mobile way of life that had persisted since the Ice Age."

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Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"The Guilford Board of Trade proclaimed the 100 year anniversary of the town's existence. Committees and sub committees were appointed; buildings were…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… region in 1676 with raids on both the Hammond Trading Post at the Narrows across from Chops Point on the eastern shore of the Kennebec and the…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… is known about the early businesses and trades till after the island's incorporation in 1789, except that many were involved in harvesting of wood…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"… Free Library? X Front Street, From Post Office Square, Bath. ca. 1930Patten Free Library A year-long learning experience that has…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"… traders to operate in the area, destroyed the trading posts and drove away the small number of English settler colonists there."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Northeast Airlines DC-3, Presque Isle, ca. 1945

"… A Northeast Airlines DC-3 is parked at the post World War II Presque Isle Air Terminal Building on outer Mechanic Street bordering Presque Isle…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"Fly Rod attended large outdoor trade shows in Boston and New York, where she advocated for the Narrow Gauge Railroad as a means of accessing…"