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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"The daughter of Major John Z. Holwell, Anna Margaret married Nathaniel Deering, a noted attorney, editor composer, and dramatist."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"Loading deer on the train at Strong station, ca. 1915 Strong was a popular stop for "sports" traveling to and from the Rangeley Region on the Narrow…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"… generation of sports by placing bag limits on deer, salmon and trout as well as advocating for catch and release fishing tactics."

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 2 of 17

"Deering & Son Lumber Co., Biddeford, ca. 1880Maine Historical Society During the Civil War, Maine laborers worked in logging, milling, papermaking…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"Fire at Deering High Deering High School fire, Portland, 1921Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media On May 20th, 1921, Deering High School…"

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Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"Goldthwaite composed The Purple and White for Deering High School. The score, in march tempo, begins, "Deering felt the duty to own A flag, not for…"

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Mercy Hospital - Founding of Mercy

"Administration transferred from the old Weeks House to the larger Payson house on Deering and State Streets in 1927, with Weeks transforming into a…"

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Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 2 of 3

"Red deer processing 85 cents per pound dressed; inspection charge is included to kill. Buffalo/bison processing is 40 cents per pound dressed, $100…"

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Music in Maine - Music and Television

"Deering High School student Suzanne Svenson was a regular on the Dave Astor Show. The program often included series regulars and weekly guests from…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY

"X Wildlife abounds, and includes deer, fox, and all manner of fish, shorebirds, and waterfowl. The soil is rich and supports farming even today."

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Man on the Street"

"… quite an important figure in the class of 1901, Deering High School, if we are to judge from his record."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"Small, a Deer Isle man who served as a doctor on Swan’s Island between the years 1891 and 1903, points out in his island history that the name…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"… was born in Portland in 1886 and grew up on Deering Street near his grandfather William Widgery Thomas, a noted diplomat."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"… variety of aboriginal trinkets, skins of seal and deer, baskets of birch-bark, moccasins, bead-work, snow-shows, gulls’ breasts, stuffed birds…"

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

"… members by members of the Wabanaki community at Deering Oaks was a crowd and media favorite. The state of Maine invited European and Asian allied…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"Deering & Son Lumber Co., Biddeford, ca. 1880Maine Historical Society By the mid to late 1700s Biddeford was a growing town, in the varied and…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"They planted beans, corn, and squash and hunted deer and other wild game as well. Occasionally they warred with other tribes along their frontiers…"

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Maine Maritime Museum

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Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"Weeks, and an elderly lady from the Deering family. Thomas R. Burnham arrived in Portland from Bangor in 1858 and was joined the next year by his…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"… in Evergreen Cemetery (1902), the Castle in Deering Oaks (1894), the Armory on Milk Street (1895), the Masonic Temple on Congress Street (1912)…"

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Dyer Library/Saco Museum

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

"Will warrant that good deer hunting be found.” One man who answered Joe’s ad was William Lyman Underwood, grandson to William Underwood who…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Bob Marley

"He then attended Deering High School in Portland, Maine. Marley had his first experiences with comedy while in high school."

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

"… was received stopped at the postoffice either at Deer Isle or Mount Desert and was brought to this island when a sail boat chanced to visit those…"