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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"When Reef Point was dismantled and the research center abandoned in 1956, Charles purchased many of the large plants at Reef Point (including the…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"Biddeford, Me. : The Town. 1860-66. (C) Baker, Emerson W. "The world of Thomas Gorges: Life in the province of Maine in the 1640's." American…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… is expected and the teacher no longer is the center of attention, the learning is. Blackboards Amara, grade 7 Blackboards have evolved over the…"

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Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Skowhegan History House

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Rumford Area Historical Society

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"… his steam saw and grist mill at Cumberland Center around 1884. The stave and shook mill on Cold Water Stream was built by Levi H."

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"1971 • Regional Medical Center founded 1972 • American Can closes in Lubec • Movie theater burns • Lubec Crafts Council incorporated 1975 • McCurdy…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"… Bar Harbor and through the school and performance center she founded here, she helped shape the careers of some of the most influential dancers of…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"The bridge was found to have been rotten in the center of the beams, where earlier inspections had missed its severity."

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"Our Heritage. Bangor Museum and History Center. Visitbangormaine.com. 2014. Web. 24 May 2014. Reilly, Wayne E."

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Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… original piece world-premiered at the Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine, Orono and performed as part of the Bangor Symphony…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… theater and before long, the Criterion became the center of upscale entertainment activity for summer colonists."

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"Item contributed by the Bangor Museum and Center for History. X Conditions weren’t that much different in Andersonville prison, which was more…"

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Seashore Trolley Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"The idea was to make the boarding houses social centers, and to surround them with the most elevating influence."

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Taverns, People, and Scenes

"… Maines small towns and cities, taverns were the center of social and political life. William McLellan Sr., Portland, ca.1800Maine…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… since it had lost its primary commercial center when the village of Yarmouth seceded from North Yarmouth in August 1849."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… Somesville was by now the economic and cultural center of the island. It had a small store, a blacksmith, a shoemaker, a tanning yard, a woolen…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Music in Maine - Community Music

"Sometimes Grange halls served as town library and offered adult education. Leeds Grange Hall stage, 1975Leeds Historical Society The Grange…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… WorldCat Identities, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. , 2019, www.worldcat.org/identities/."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… Portland in the Long Creek Youth Development Center, formerly known as the Maine Youth Center. Gould purchased 6,500 acres of timbered land on…"

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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… 20th century, Lubec and Eastport were the twin centers of this fishery industry. The sardines canned there were really little herring, the same…"