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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings

"… Buildings The Old House, Harbor Cottage, The Big Barn and the Old Ell were not the only structures in Asticou to move, expand, or morph into new…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn Harbor Cottage at Asticou Northeast Harbor Maine ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… John and Aunt Emily had a barn dance in the big barn after it was moved and set up new. I was a small girl, but was allowed to go and stay until 10…"

Acadian Archives

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Camden-Rockport Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 74-138

"… in Hampden's lower corner, moving the Rogers barn, his father's shipbuilding work, whooping cough, coping with deep snow in the winter, and moving…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"Later, around 1883, the barn and shed were demolished and the Old House was swung around and relocated westward to make room for the first Asticou…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond

"Houses, barns, workshops, garages and sheds in Asticou were routinely moved, split up, and expanded as needed to suit the occupants, giving true…"

Hampden Historical Society

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth Era: 1786-1807

"… Revolution, and built his home, a store and barn beginning in 1785. For Peleg, like many in the era, the home was also the site of his work."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… in the 1960s) on the former site of the big barn and he and his family moved in and began to live in Asticou on a year-round basis."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Mills and Homes in Stockholm

"There was a big barn down town that was used for the work horses. They had 10 teams and the horses were used for various jobs."

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Streetscape, 1790-1930

"The Longfellows added a barn in 1785 and a woodhouse. The barn was a wood-frame structure with no chimney, one opening at the attic level, and a…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… school houses, three mills, 163 houses, and 151 barns. The Colony Expands Into Neighboring Townships The town of Westmanland (just west of New…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"An ell and large dairy barn were added in the 1860s creating a connected farm, which was a typical New England architectural style."

New Sweden Historical Society

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"However, a peek inside Walter Nowick’s “concert barn” on a Sunday evening in August during the 1990s would have revealed Mainers, Russians, and…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave

"… persuaded him to move to another location (Swan’s barn). Instead, they led him to East Thomaston, where he was soon rushed onto a ship and…"

Windham Historical Society

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Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"He had three large barns and two great orchards. In Patten, he had a street named after him called Dearborn Street."

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"Mary Martin stepped forward and offered a barn that had been recently built on her property. The offer was gratefully accepted."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… and hauled my load up to the hill beyond Babcocks barn when his steers swung and broke my sled tongue."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"Barn raisings were the first social events, consisting of fiddle playing, dancing, and plenty of good food."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"He contracted someone to build him a barn one year and a house the following summer, where he and his bride, Eunice Knight, whom he married in 1830…"