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Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943

"Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This display shows…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware

"Our hardware store is my comparison to Weatherbee Hardware. Zachary Savage "How does this topic connect to you in your life today?" This connects…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Memorial Day, Presque Isle, 1888

"Freeman Hardware Store. Above the store door is the name, "Bouquet." Above the second floor is the sign, "Photography Rooms." Note the late 1880's…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Main Street

"… Stevens X Main Street Looking South photo by Roger Stevens X Smart's Hardware Store, Lincoln, ca. 1928Lincoln Historical Society"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"His store, one of three businesses at an area referred to as the Upper Corner, the intersection of County Road and Wadsworth Street, stood on the…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"In Dark Harbor, Williams Brothers operated a large grocery store featuring fancy goods, (ie: caviar, goose liver, specially packed canned foods from…"

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"The John Scales building was one of the oldest hardware stores and was sold to Keith Farnham on July 26, who changed the name to Guilford Hardware."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"Hardware stores were being built to supply the building boom due to the construction of the Oxford Paper Company across the Androscoggin River in…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… including a furniture factory, livery stables, hardware stores, blacksmith shops, schools, post office, telegraph lines and a telephone service."

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"Mr. Weatherbee owned and operated Weatherbee Hardware on the opposite side of the street. The store needed to expand, and Mr."

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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"Lovell's Guilford Hardware still occupies the site today. Lovell's Guilford Hardware X W. G. BLAKE'S AGENCY X This office building was…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"The shop, now a hardware store, is still owned by the Brown family. Emily Manchester operated a hand laundry business in the back of her home."

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Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… Furniture Store, two beer parlors, Weatherbee’s Hardware Store, The Community Movie Theater, the “Five & Dime” Variety Store, Haley’s Construction…"

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Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"Allen and Lorenzo Allen, South Lubec; E.U. Brown, sardine packer; N.W. Marston and Willie Marston, South Lubec; W.B. Mowry; T.G. Mitchell’s grocery…"

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

"There was a gristmill and a blacksmith shop. Dunn's Corner was active until around 1943, when the store closed and the railroad no longer made stops…"