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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"Wabanaki encampment, Bar Harbor, ca. 1887Maine Historic Preservation Commission The Indian encampment at Bar Harbor will be found a pleasant place…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes Indian encampment, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum All the cooking at the Indian encampment is done…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"Wabanaki encampment, Bar Harbor, ca. 1890Abbe Museum In the olden days, from about 1860 to 1900, I well remember that Indian encampments were the…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… Order of Red Men Society? Visit the Wabanaki encampment and meet real Indians? Mount Desert Reading RoomJesup Memorial Library The Mt."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"… there were the Wabanaki… Wabanaki encampment, ca. 1000 BCEAbbe Museum Nearly 500 years ago, Wabanakis spotted the first European sailing…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wabanaki Today

"Wabanaki Today Wabanaki Today The Indian encampments are no longer part of the cultural or physical makeup of Mount Desert Island; however the…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 195-277

"… set a date for Christ's second coming, and their encampment in Orrington. Martin then wrote about working for Rufus Prince, a club of young men…"

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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2

"… two of his paintings, the Portland Light Infantry Encampment and Tom "Piggy" Houston Sculptor Benjamin Paul Akers, ca."

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

"… Museum Many Wabanaki men at the Bar Harbor encampments made themselves available as guides to take summer people in canoes for sightseeing…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"Anthropologists conducted research at the Indian encampment while stunningly wealthy capitalists focused on conspicuous socializing or devoted…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… in the heyday of hotels, cottages and Indian encampments, 1886 Bird's-eye view maps like this 1886 panorama of Bar Harbor were popular all across…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Student Narrative of MDI History

"Shell heaps found on the island tell of encampments by Native Americans – the Abnaki. There is no written information from this time period but…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"They were encamped overlooking the Potomac and Alexandria Rivers near Franconia, in Fairfax County, Virginia two months after their involvement at…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"… sporting events with locals, cottagers, and encamped tribesmen. Running a hotel such as the Rodick required chambermaids, butlers, chefs…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"… Columbia were represented at the first national encampment held at Indianapolis on November 20, 1866."

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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"We are encamped close to White Oak Swamp—or rather a pond which flows from it—it is stocked with Pike, Perch, Chubs, Eels and Turtle- of the later we…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Wabanaki encampment, ca. 1000 BCEAbbe Museum While great change came to the Wabanaki on and around MDI over the next several hundred years, they are…"

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Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"Soldiers serving in the military in crowded encampments were also hard hit. Of the 1,032 Mainers who died during the war, over half died of the flu."

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… by Jennifer Multhopp Pre-1700s • Passamaquoddy encampments in North Lubec – shell middens found on South Bay and Mill Creek."

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… of the Passamaquoddy tribe, who made seasonal encampments at Seward’s Neck (North Lubec) during the spring smelt run, gathered sweet grass and…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… the Republic, Aroostook Rebekah and Olive Branch Encampments, Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Grange."