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Surry by the Bay - Weathervane Dispute

"Weathervane Dispute New Surry Grammar School, 1952Surry Historical Society Text by Lynn Bonsey Images contributed by Surry Historical Society…"

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge Text by Bryan McLellan Images contributed by Wilbur and Marjorie Saunders through the Surry Historical Society From the…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"Broadway by the Bay Playhouse, Surry, 1946Surry Historical Society Surry Playhouse 1929-1938/1946-1953 Text by Kate Mrozicki Images…"

Surry by the Bay - Welcome

"Welcome Come to SurrySurry Historical Society Welcome to the Hancock County coastal community of Surry."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property Text by Steve Collier and Sandy Collier Images contributed by Susan Paquette through the Surry Historical Society…"

Surry by the Bay - About The Project

"About The Project Our team is comprised of Surry Elementary School, the Surry Historical Society, and several Surry residents."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"Surry Opera Company Opera Company's Tenth Anniversary festival schedule, Surry, 1994Surry Historical Society Text by Kate Mrozicki Images…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

"… store? Or will it descend to resemble the ghost villages of Sound and Center – once thriving island villages that have no commercial businesses at…"

Waterford Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures cont'd

"… Pleasures cont'd Seaside Hall in Atlantic village, Swan's Island, ca. 1925Swan's Island Historical Society Ice cream socials were also…"

L'Heritage Vivant Living Heritage

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Naples Historical Society

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

"… the schools in New Portland, the New Portland Community Library history, and some information about the history of the 3 villages in New Portland."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"They were intended for what was called "amusements of a wholesome nature." Gambling, strong drink and profanity were prohibited. They hosted village…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 1 of 6

"… the lens of his camera while walking on the village trails, artistically developing landscape portraits in the dark room at his Clover Cottage…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Stores

"Nelson Morse, Swan's Island village, ca. 1940sSwan's Island Historical Society These village stores carried just about anything needed: canned…"

Alfred Historical Committee

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"During the 1920s, as the village grew, business on Main Street changed hands and the buildings themselves were transformed."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - You Can Get Here From There

"… of Bar Harbor as a summer resort, and later the villages of Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor, the steamboats were essential in transporting not…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… Historical Society The Sokokis/Saco main village is thought to be Sowocatuck, where modern day downtown Biddeford and Saco now stand, in the areas…"

Blue Hill, Maine - A New Look at an Old Painting

"… Reverend Jonathan Fisher's "Morning in Blue Hill Village, Sept. 1824" is one of Maine's oldest landscape paintings."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Dance

"Once the Odd Fellows Hall was built in 1909, dances were held there. In the village of Atlantic, during the 1970’s, Mertic Morrison would have music…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"Another early settler in the village was William Whitman, the grandfather of Hosea B. Whitman. William Whitman settled where G."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1940 to Present Day

"… moniker is most fitting for this tranquil coastal village - a village that might never have been were it not for its connection to the sea. <- Prev."