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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"The truck was driven back to the potato field so that the empties could be dropped onto the picker's sections."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison leaves Thomaston - 2002

"… demolished in April of that year, leaving a wide empty grassy field and the southeast corner of the former prison wall remaining."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Soldier, Bangor, ca. 1860

"… a fine cotton shirt with linen dickey a knapsack empty and a pair of fine calf boots with either white silk or white cotton gloves with red stripes…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 2 of 5

"The potato truck had full and empty barrels on the back of it. When the truck went by Edwena never got a barrel."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 9 of 13

"A full basket of potatoes is being emptied into a barrel. The farm owner, Mr. Conant is walking across the field by two potato pickers."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 5 of 13

"… in the way of the truck passing through to unload empty barrels or to pick up full ones. If the section is too short, the potato picker would not…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"… by second-hand shops, convenience stores or empty, dilapidated buildings. A controversial trash incinerator in the heart of downtown, divisive…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"… from the newer built camps which remain largely empty most of the year, it is a quiet place. Long Island in 1881Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc."

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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 3 of 3

"Today the facility sits empty, a staunch reminder of the present economy. X Resources: Guilford, Maine, Celebrating 175 Years of Growth…"

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Presque Isle Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 2 of 3

"… in the background of the photo which shows the empty reservoir in August, 1914. During World War II, the reservoir was under constant surveillance…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… in Bath was built in the year of 1869, on an empty lot. It was designed by Francis Henry Fassett, in the Italianate style."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

"… has been rebuilt, as of 2013, there are still empty lots on Main Street as a result of the fire."

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… the ice wagons when they made the run up the hill empty, you know, after they unloaded the ice. All the kids would hook their sleds to the wagons…"

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy

"… passed an ordinance prohibiting residents from emptying or removing the contents of any privy vault within the city."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… Harbor, just south of where Hadlock Brook empties into Somes Sound. They mowed the grass, and pitched their six canvas tents: a parlor tent…"

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"… the ice wagons when they made the run up the hill empty, you know, after they unloaded the ice. All the kids would hook their sleds to the wagons…"

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"Before it was a fire station, it was just an empty spot in Guilford. At first, the fire station got the water from the river using a pump that was…"

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"There was nothing there before except an empty landscape. It is a normal building, made of wood, and not too much insulation."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"Once on deck, the trap is emptied. Hopefully, the trap contains lobsters, but there may also be other sea creatures and seaweed as well."

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Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Bridge That Changed The Map

"Merrill Lumber, of Turner, loaded with empty shipping boxes for Forster’s Toothpick Mill, crashed through the deck of the bridge to the riverbank…"

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

"… by the tidal currents alternately flooding and emptying the Salt Pond. The town's tax assessor in 1792 reported 50 houses, 8 mills, 6 stores, 95…"

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"As of today, the vacant lot is still empty, and is trying to be sold to the town. Plans for rebuilding on the lot are still under question, and may…"