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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"This was accomplished by a local confidante, farmer Waldo Pettengill, while Hugh was working on the design of the manufacturing facilities and the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"Lapham, Press of the Maine Farmer, Boston, MA. 1890; Hugh J. Chisholm’s Magic Town, 1882-1912, by Peter McKenna (Master’s Thesis); The Oxford Story…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… recently welcomed its newest tenant, organic farmer Justin Deri, to use the southwest fields for his Community Supported Agriculture business."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… 1911, by Hollis Turner, printed by the Maine Farmer Pub. Co., Augusta, Maine, 1911. A History of the Town of Peru, Maine, by Mary S. Vaughn, 1971."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… industry brought increased prosperity to area farmers, who harvested the timber, and to blacksmiths, carpenters, ship-chandlers and other suppliers…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Farmers, traders and manufacturers saw their overseas markets disappear. Business plummeted and ships languished."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… families, the Westons and the Heywoods, were farmers who traveled up the river in 1771 from Massachusetts."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… and Ellen's son Herbert Marston Lawrence was a farmer and East North Yarmouth's first mail carrier at the turn of the century."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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