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Tate House Museum

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Historic Hallowell - In the Beginning - Raw Materials - Quarrying

"… timber, processed into potash was for export to Britain's soap-making industry. Quarrying granite soon followed."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"… was written in 1783 ending the War with Great Britain which recognized the United States. After the Revolutionary War dignitaries visited the Chief…"

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Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"… with politics? (No) Was the late war between the United States and Great Britain beneficial to the former? (No) The next step in our journey."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Edelson, S. Max. The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone

"… much so that she accepted a position at the New Britain Model School in New Britain, Connecticut. In 1901, Miss Stone returned to Maine, and more…"

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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"… role in the settlement of the dispute with Great Britain over Maine’s northeast boundary. Complementing the image of the Daveis’s bust is a…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"… to Casco Bay: Portugal, Japan and Great Britain. Coupled with two U.S. battleships, the USS Utah and USS Florida, naval representation spanned…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… in 1796 to become United States Minister to Great Britain. In 1804, he was an unsuccessful Federalist candidate for Vice President of the United…"

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Historic Hallowell - This won't hurt a bit!

"… with more than a little skepticism and concern in Britain. James Gillray, a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and…"

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Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… throughout the country and as far away as Great Britain and Africa. The volume of packages and circular letters sent from his Water Street location…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"… occurred within it during the last war with Great Britain.” (History of Penobscot County Maine with illustrations and biographical sketches 1882)…"

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Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 1 of 2

"… Overwhelmingly dedicated to independence from Britain, Mainers quieted any murmurs of separation during the American Revolution."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 1 of 3

"Clothing was not rationed as it was in Britain, but the War Production Board (WPB) issued order L-85 in March 1942 to regulate the amount of fabric…"

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

"Max Edelson, The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2017)."

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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 4 of 5

"… the new Whig and Tory governments of the US and Britain to finally settle the northeastern border in 1842."

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Maine's Road to Statehood - Turn of the Century to the War of 1812

"At a time of national crisis with Britain, it was a burden to the national government and potentially hazardous to attempt a separation."

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Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"… running a school for war refugee boys from Great Britain and Europe. Gridley Barrows served in the Pacific during World War II, attaining the rank…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… the settlement of the boundary dispute between Britain and the United States; the 1838 visit of Ezekiel Holmes, the father of Maine Agriculture…"

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Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"… since declaring its independence from Great Britain. Since its original settlement, Guilford has watched some of its brightest and best go marching…"

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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… due to disputes and battles between Great Britain and France. From 1613 to 1759, Acadia changed owners eleven times, five times in possession of…"

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Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"… of Mercy quickly spread across Ireland and Great Britain. Although Mother McAuley lived only 10 years after becoming a Sister, she opened fourteen…"

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… the Northeastern Boundary Dispute with Great Britain in Maine’s favor. During his third term, he traveled from Portland, then the state capital, to…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… President Madison's declaration of war on Great Britain, Governor Strong would not allow the Massachusetts militia to leave the state and refused…"