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John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 2, pages 27-37

"Other topics and people mentioned are: Excerpt from book about Virginia, South Carolina 1849 crime reports"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro to pages 91-132

"… comments on, and instructions for the Polka, and Virginia Reel. He also provides images and profiles of: Mrs. Emily A. Mills L."

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

"§ Wounded at Middletown, Virginia on May 31, 1862. § Taken prisoner in Middletown, Virginia on June 24, 1862. § Promoted to Major May 8, 1862."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Ammunition Case

"This battle occurred in Manassas, Virginia on July 21st, 1861. The Union army lost 460 soldiers, all of which probably carried ammunition cases."

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War Resources

"Zombek, Angela M. "Libby Prison." Encyclopedia Virginia. Brendan Wolfe, ed. 5 Apr. 2011. Web. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. 7 Jun. 2012."

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"… Dolly Madison (1768-1849) was raised in rural Virginia and educated in Philadelphia. After the death of her first husband, she married Congressman…"

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Historic Hallowell - Dr. John Hubbard

"… attending medical school he practiced medicine in Virginia but returned to Hallowell in 1830 and set up his practice in a small office off Winthrop…"

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

"Print. Thorndike, Virginia. Islanders Real Life on the Maine Islands . Downeast Pub., 2005. Print. http://www.seacoastmission.org Many thanks to our…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s

"… hardwood supplies in Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia. Workmen with knowledge of ship measurement requirements would harvest lumber and oversee…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"Those living in the Virginia section of town had the Virginia School. Those who lived in the Swain Road and Eaton Hill section of Woodrowville had…"

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods Citations

"“VIRGINIA FLOODS.” 18 Dec. 205. http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/Historic_Events/va-floods.... (accessed Mar. 4, 2010)."

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Life on a Tidal River - Resources

"Woodsmen and Whigs: Historic Images of Bangor, Maine. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company, 1991. Print."

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Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"… in 1832, and he died in action in Petersburg, Virginia in June of 1864. There were 18,000 men that were in the battle."

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Music in Maine - Country Music

"in Wheeling, West Virginia. Dick Curless started wearing an eye patch in the mid-1960s on his right eye because of deteriorating vision, and it…"

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Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"… with them, including the Lilly Brothers from West Virginia, who in 1957, recorded at Al Hawkes’ Event Records in Westbrook."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"… the local names supplied by Smith, changing North Virginia to New England and Segochet to Norwich, today the site of Thomaston."

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Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"Military Prison in Richmond, Virginia. From there, he was transferred to a prison in Salisbury, North Carolina on October 9, 1864."

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

"Mary’s Church in Virginia. He died on October 6, 1864, in Andersonville Prison of scorbutus. He is buried at the Andersonville National Cemetery."

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Early Maine Photography - War - Page 2 of 2

"In August of that year, he was captured in Virginia and died in November in the Confederate prison camp in Salisbury, North Carolina. Sgt."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"He died of his wounds at Chesapeake Hospital, Fort Monroe, Virginia on September 3, 1864. Luther Lawrence, ca."

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Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec Citations

"“VIRGINIA FLOODS.” 18 Dec. 205. http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/Historic_Events/va-floods.... (accessed Mar. 4, 2010)."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… that his unit was preparing to march in Richmond, Virginia, which was just 6 miles away. George Pepper, unlike his brother Joseph, did not die in…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"Whom I captured at the Battle of Fair oaks. The Virginia Button I got at Yorktown.“ The Ed Kent he mentions in the letter below is possibly Bangor…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"Frederick Rogers to his mother Hannah, Virginia, March 23, 1862Bangor Historical Society Camp near Potomac Creek Va."