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Brick Store Museum

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"Door of Brick Inn. Notice the complex brick work around the entrance. (photo taken in 2020) X Who actually turned a one-family home into…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"… only that we—as Wabanaki people—have always been making our own history, but that settlers have never fully recognized our self-determination or…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… is between the often-distant proprietors, who make their claims over Wabanaki lands, sometimes through deeds (or purported deeds) signed with…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"… Historical Society The Beyond Borders portal makes accessible three of the Maine Historical Society’s most significant archival collections: the…"

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

"… Goodwin found a copy of the Plymouth Colony Patent in 1744. The major shareholders began attempting to make the company claim a reality in 1749."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… not participate in companies’ day-to-day decision-making or shareholders’ meetings. Instead, they appeared in the record primarily when land titles…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… by assuming the risk of moving to Maine, and making the company claim valuable, they deserved a greater share of it."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"… roads, mills, and meetinghouses they built helped make the rest of the proprietors’ tracts more appealing to future purchasers."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners

"… to extend the reach of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible." Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"… task of writing about historical documents and making them relevant to non-historians is often daunting."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

"… Indian deeds and title were only recognized as making it possible for European settlers—and European settlers only—to have full title to land, even…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"Yet Alexander’s attempt to actually make good on his grant by transporting settlers was an immediate and complete failure."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… subsequent US-British treaties gradually tried to make sense of its language starting with the Jay Treaty (1794). This authorized the St."

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The building, known as “The Old Brick Store” was a landmark until it burned in 1915. Crosby’s Federalist style Grist Mill Store dates from 1809…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Huntress

"The reason this is true is because he helped make the bricks for the first school ever built in Lincoln."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"… logging, lime burning, canals, ship building and brick making all over what was then Lincoln County."

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The building, known as “The Old Brick Store” was a landmark until it burned in 1915. Crosby’s Federalist style Grist Mill Store dates from 1809…"

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

"and a third story was added. To the right is the brick house Peleg Wadsworth built in 1785-1786. It is two stories with a gable roof and has double…"

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Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"… in Hallowell in 1905 and occupied one of the brick buildings belonging to the Kennebec Reality Company."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… had gable roofs and walls made out of granite, brick, terra-cotta, dentil moldings and soldier bricks. Galen Moses and friends, Bath, ca."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870

"… Historical Society, to this day, this 1796 brick building survives and serves as its headquarters. <- Prev. Page .................."

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Belfast Historical Society

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"Other businessmen built brick stores as Bath's downtown began to shift from one largely of wooden buildings to one of brick."