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Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Lasting Legacies

"Solid Foundations - Lasting Legacies Hallowell celebrates proudly!Hubbard Free Library Hallowell Celebrates It 250th Anniversary! The City…"

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Moosehead Messenger

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Corn Canning Industry

"The season lasted a mere three weeks. Franklin Farm Products Cooperative, established in 1929 was the last cannery to disappear from Farmington’s…"

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Historic Hallowell - Blizzard Poems

"… of white unforgettable Surprise disaster warning last minute necessities struggling people Roads plow’s success died down difficult transportation…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - White's Graded School Series, Complete Arithmetic book, 1870

""L. W. Titcomb, Farmington, Me." penciled on the last page. Book published by Wilson, Hinkle and Company, Cincinnati, 1870 View additional…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Football Oracle Page 4

"It contains a brief report of their last game of the season as well as a list of all the players on the team."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lillian Nordica, Farmington, ca. 1911

"… it to the library trustees on the occasion of her last public performance in Farmington on August 17, 1911."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook GP-38, Presque Isle, 1991

"… Bangor and Aroostook Railroad's engine 94, the last GP-38 purchased from General Motors Electro-motive Division (EMD), was delivered in September…"

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Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"1939Hubbard Free Library In 1939, the last coal delivery was made to the Wingate Wharf, and in 1962 the last tanker off-loaded its cargo of heating…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - SEE NOTES Ladies' Third Annual Banquet. Farmington, Maine. 1893. Back cover.

"… lengthy, since the Franklin Journal reported the last farewell took place at one o'clock A.M. "The good-byes were spoken, and at an early hour the…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 3 of 3

"Everybody came to the picnic because it was the last thing before school started. Families had this picnic lunch because they could not afford to…"

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East Grand School

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Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"… 40 miles from the ocean, when they reached the last point of navigation on the Kennebec, the rapids in Augusta that marked the “head of tide,” they…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - The Continuing Debate

"… articles in the Portland Press Herald last year, and the state's well-publicized tough drunk-driving laws also keep the issue open for examination…"

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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"This makes Lubec the last place in Maine with preserved elements of the one of the most significant and long-lasting waterfront industries in…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"She was the last large vessel to hail from Thomaston and the last barkentine built on the coast. “Reine Marie Stewart,” sailing out of Panama, was…"

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Historic Hallowell - Keeping Us Safe: Fire Department and Police Force

"Hallowell was one of the last towns in Maine to purchase their modern fire engine. The history of the fire department and police department are…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Junior Martin in cadet uniform, Bangor, ca. 1871

"… to perform business which occured in July last in the national Insurance office in which he stayed his school vacation of 8 weeks." Martin drew…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Belles Early apple, Bangor, 1864

"… this Belles Early apple and wrote, "ripens the last of august flavour spicy and rich." He also wrote, "Sept 2 1866 Adas Tree had 125 apples of…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… Proprietors’ documents and actions feel to the last sixty to seventy years of State and Federal dealings with Tribes, and attempts at…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Business as Usual

"1850Maine Historical Society Maine's Last Brewery The New England Magazine, Neal Dow: His Life and Work June 1894 Collections of Maine Historical…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The "Edward O'Brien", the "Washington B. Thomas", & "Edna Hoyt"

"1920,Thomaston Historical Society The last large schooner built in Thomaston was the 5-masted “Edna Hoyt,” built in 1920 at a cost of $280,000 by…"

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Belfast Free Library

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

"… of Logging in Northen Maine” UNIVERSIY OF MAINE PRESS, 1989 Charles Morrow Wilson “Aroostook: Our Last Frontier” Stephen Daye Press, 1937"