Keywords: paths
- Historical Items (86)
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- Site Pages (31)
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Site Pages
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"Everywhere also the path has broadened, and larger groups of women have and are working with the same eager enthusiasm toward the still larger life…"
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Historic Hallowell - News Article by Emily Markham
"Two major transportation paths have been swept away in the Kennebec. Hallowell city's train tracks were swept away leaving no train transportation…"
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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling
"… landed upon the shore of the Kennebec and made a path for themselves to the spot where the old cotton factory now stands in Hallowell."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2
"The drag would make flat paths. That looked like little roads. Albert and his friends would take their tricycles and wagons and pretend that they…"
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Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 2 of 2
"… Sister Mary Michael Connelly followed a different path to service at Mercy Hospital. A Bangorian, she enrolled in Mercy Hospital’s first nursing…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"Certain signs cut on trees marked paths from one home to another; and if marks were cut just right, the traveler could find his way after dark."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…
"… marshes and turned ancient forest trails into paths and dirt roads. I mean now to give you a history of my discovering of the Island of Mount…"
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Skowhegan Community History - Early Settlement in Skowhegan
"… to go on by boat, so they started to cut a path through the thick woods of Maine. It took them three weeks to go 20 miles."
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"… and business environment were setting them on a path of which there was not return. The expansion and conglomeration of all of the major…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps
"… Map, 1924 Abbott Park Original Design Map "Paths" in Google Earth: Yet another feature of Google Earth is the ability to draw a path on a map to…"
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Lincoln, Maine - W.A. Brown: Jack of all trades
"… of the biggest businesses, so he kind of paved a path for other businesses in Lincoln. Like his car dealership, did that kick start all the other…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team
"… by Larissa Vigue Picard X Though our general path for this project was sketched in our application to the Maine Historical Society in 2008, our…"
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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… role each collection plays in documenting Maine’s path to statehood; and their relationship to one another in respect to content."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School
"… had once been a showplace of bridges, walking paths, and trees was sold to a developer who had planned to put in a number of commercial entities…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4
"… marsh between Dunstan and Oak Hill, the current path of Route 1, and was funded by toll rates, eight cents for a horse and twenty-five cents for a…"
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship
"The ball sailed up in the air, eyes following its path, heading right for the hoop. The buzzer went off and swish, the basketball sunk through the…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4
"Bridle paths were the only tracks for early mail carriers through the wilderness north of Augusta. The first mail route to Strong was established in…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry
"… even strangers wave to each other as they cross paths on the roads. Whether they are carried by a horse drawn wagon, or a 320 horsepower truck, the…"
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Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy
"That is a stage on the path to canonization for sainthood, eagerly awaited by her Sisters and all who love Mercy."
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Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines
"Even though Maine is not in a normal hurricane path we are still not immune to the destruction of a hurricane."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959
"… trees and/or symbols to the “Pathway of Peace”, a path leading to the National Christmas Tree. The pageant featured live reindeer, an Eskimo…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row
"… of Front Street burning down everything in its path, almost impossible to stop. The huge fire burned down many homes and businesses including those…"