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Norcross Heritage Trust

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Fiske Block, Broad Street, Bangor, 1864

"… Patten had just purchased the store and hired the wharf opposite and could use Martin's help. Martin added later to his description of the…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Picnic, Fort Point Light, and Fort Pownal, 1865

"… drew a full-page illustration of Excursion Wharf, Fort Pownal, Fort Point Light in Stockton Springs, and a picnic that he and his wife and children…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"Chapman and Flint laid out a new yard on the Narrows (a narrowing of the river northwest of the Wadsworth Street bridge) near John Paine’s original…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings On Wheels

"… Harbor Through Seven Generations Roberts Wharf and view up to Asticou from Northeast Harbor Maine ca."

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Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"… Della Collins, Eastern Steamship Company Wharf, Kennebec River, Hallowell, ca. 1890Hubbard Free Library The Zebedee E."

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards

"… Company (1834-1935) serviced a steamboat wharf in Hampden and carried passengers and freight from town to town along the Penobscot, and made trips…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison is built - 1823 to 1824

"This sum included the wharf on the George's River and loading gondola for granite. Fifty builders and two lighters (unpowered barges used to transfer…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Maine State Prison

"… Hill and its nearly 100-year-old lime quarry, a wharf and stores on Wadsworth Street. Looking southeast toward Wadsworth Street Bridge…"

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

"… Island at seven in the morning from the Quarry Wharf in Minturn, stopped at nearby Frenchboro, then McKinley (now known as Bass Harbor, on Mount…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"In 1853 they built the steamship wharf at the point and talked the Eastern Steamship Company into establishing service."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"The Darling’s Blue Hill Granite Company had a wharf at the present site of the Kollegewidgwok Yacht Club."

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… vessels departing regularly from the wharf on the Penobscot to Boston. A ticket was only $6.00! Horse-drawn wagons were often lined up all the way…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"… to Thomaston and tied at Dunn and Elliot’s wharf, where she became a floating landmark, a visual reminder of Thomaston’s shipbuilding heritage."

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Friendship Museum

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Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec Citations

"12 Mar. 2011. Webber, Sumner A. “Wharfs.” E-mail to Brittany M. Briggs. 28 Apr. 2011. Briggs, Bob. Around Hallowell."

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Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… because it was found near the site of the City Wharf Shipyard that opened in the early 1950's. Warren Russ, an underwater archaeologist, associated…"

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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"… usual functional location, out at the end of the wharf on long pilings, on the right in Van Riper’s photograph."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… Island at seven in the morning from the Quarry Wharf in Minturn, stopped at nearby Frenchboro and McKinley (now known as Bass Harbor, on Mount…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… at the shore between Suminsby’s and Steamboat Wharf, Bar Harbor, a number of Birch-bark canoes, in which he will take parties to several Islands in…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… Company (1834-1935) serviced a steamboat wharf in Hampden and carried passengers and freight from town to town along the Penobscot from making…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - War of 1812

"… he managed to sail his ship to Crosby’s Long Wharf in Hampden for repairs. Having taken Castine on September 1, 1814, British ships set sail toward…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"… Historical Society The first steamboat wharf on Islesboro was built at Lime Kiln in Pripet in 1847."

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

"George (the area later known as Fort Wharf), the fort was located at the southeastern side of lower Knox Street, currently the site of the Lyman…"