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Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… had to have at least four inches of ice on the pond before you could set up to start cutting.” The Moores cut ice on Cascade Pond, above the first…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Pulp mill, Lincoln, 1915 - Page 1 of 2

"It was then sent to the wood room to make chips for the pulp mill. At this time the mill was owned by the Eastern Manufacturing Company."

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Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… lumbermen began cutting around Folsom and Upper Ponds, sending the wood down the streams for transport to the saw mill."

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

"Cascade Pond - Vaughan HomesteadHubbard Free Library Once there was enough ice for the horses then you would cut holes and set up the loading…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Playing at the pond

"Three skaters at the Quarry Pond, Swan's Island, 1949Swan's Island Historical Society Swimmers at the Quarry Pond, Swan's Island, ca."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's First Grist Mill

"Farmington's First Grist Mill View across pond to Walton's MillFarmington Historical Society The first mill was located on Temple Stream at…"

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Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"In the 1880s he settled on Cunningham Ridge in Surry with his wife, Mary E. Cunningham. His first sawmill was on Toddy Pond at the mouth of Sandy…"

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… plus it housed a carding mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle mill, corn and barley gristmills. At the same time, many East Surry men, along with…"

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Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"… summer cottages or retirement homes along the ponds and bay. During the 1960s and 1970s, Ellsworth's commercial development provided employment…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… Pond (Little Ellis) and Silver Lake (Ellis Pond or Roxbury Pond). Before Byron was named Byron it was called Skillertown, a name the Indians had…"

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Surry by the Bay - Resources

"LeVine, Sarah (editor), Toddy Pond, Hancock County, Maine, A History, 2005. Photographs, early postcards, and artifacts from the collections of the…"

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Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"Patten's Bay, Patten's Pond and Patten's Pond Stream were named after him. In Samuel Wasson's Journal of East Surry, he attributes Jonathan Flye, an…"

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

"1940Surry Historical Society Toddy Pond School closed in 1932, which meant all Surry students now attended the village school."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… over the mountain, past the west side of Worthley Pond, and continue southeast to the Sumner town line, which would then continue to the county…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"… laying a water line from nearby Day Mountain Pond. The Strong Water Company was created by an act of the Legislature on March 15, 1899."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"In the early 1900s it was called Sweets Pond. Strong students have always liked going to the lake. Class picnics often took place at cottages on the…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Draining the quarry

"When the pond was drained in 2003, many treasures were found: old tools, items lost over the years by swimmers, even eels."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"… were held in a building in the area now known as Pond Road near Norton Hill Road Dist.# 8 - Taylor Hill was the location of another rural school…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"… wooden boats and canoes a lot around the local ponds and lakes. The biggest trout caught during this time period was caught in Rangeley, and it…"

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… bleached Kraft mill on the site of the current mill; and, in 1958, the mill switched from manufacturing sulphite pulp to Kraft pulp (a more…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong

"On December 31, 1965 the dedication of the new mill was held and was attended by more than 300 people."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Winter Fun

"… 1949Swan's Island Historical Society Goose Pond is in the interior part of the island and there is the Quarry Pond in Minturn which was created by…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"The absence of a lake shore or a pond for summer recreation was in part replaced by shallow pools on the Swift River, known as ABC, and covered for…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"Mills built along the railroad made Strong the logging community it is today. Sometimes the trains used two engines to haul a big load of wood."