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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"The small village transitioned from a place where most of the residents were Savages into a residential community of middle age, wealthy retired…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"Early Performance The Indian Village, Bar Harbor, ca. 1909Jesup Memorial Library Frank “Big Thunder” Loring, ca."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding

"… men had started businesses in the “Crick Village” section, a cluster of buildings centered on Mill Creek, where it passes under the County Road…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"The extremely popular “Indian Village,” hosted by members by members of the Wabanaki community at Deering Oaks was a crowd and media favorite."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… noon on August 22, the soldiers circled the small village. They found that most of the men were out hunting and the only ones left were women…"

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"… Established in 1783, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester is, as of 2024, home to the only active Shaker Community in the world."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… Center, 1857 X Settlements grow into Town Villages Settlement progressed rapidly in Ancient North Yarmouth after the American Revolution."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"… heading north and inland some 40 miles to the village of Warren and beyond. Native Americans referred to both the river and the area as Segochet…"

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

"Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846 As Crick Village became saturated with businesses, entrepreneurs moved west on the County Road to open spaces."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"Small peripheral villages (often ethnic in nature) developed outside the Rumford Falls area. Each of these areas had their own small, community…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"… shifting from Winter Harbor up the river to Falls Village. Prior to the building of the first bridge in 1758, the only way to cross the river was…"

Jonathan Fisher Memorial

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

"Like the other villages on Mount Desert Island, Northeast Harbor once had a thriving, if small, business center."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"The latter was also divided into the North and Harbor village. These distinct areas historically had their own schools, stores, and post offices, so…"

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

"… settlement of ancient North Yarmouth's coastal village of Yarmouth to the early inland settlement of Walnut Hill in present-day North Yarmouth."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"The people of the village were shot down in cold blood as they ran to the river in attempt to escape the flying bullets."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"On February 13, 1818, this small village became incorporated with the act passed by the legislature of the State of Massachusetts."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… of Mill Creek was located between Dark Harbor Village and Grindle Point where Islesboro’s only lighthouse was built in 1850."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… and making travel between the separate island villages easier. One by one, the post masters who had run offices out of their homes retired, and a…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… David Rockefeller and his family in the small village of Seal Harbor. Before Donald worked for the Rockefellers, his ancestors' lives were affected…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 6 of 6

"… residents, local churches, the Northeast Harbor Village Improvement Association trails, and the Northeast Harbor Public Library."

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… spotted, an alarm was sounded and twenty or so villagers would head out to get the whale. They would share the rewards, except for the tongue…"