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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"According to local historian Ruth Kidder: Often the team was harnessed and the wagon filled for a trip to White Cap in neighboring Rumford."

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Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society

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Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"… Flu Text contributions from Ian Saxine, MHS Historian. Items courtesy of Mercy Hospital and Maine Memory Network."

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Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"… exact numbers vary, William Willis, noted Maine historian, tallied 2,074 yeas to 2,524 nays.[13] Furthermore, the acclaimed historian commented…"

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Fryeburg Public Library

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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 1 of 3

"… Nursing Text contributions from Ian Saxine, MHS Historian. Items courtesy of Mercy Hospital. Mercy Hospital School of Nursing graduates…"

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Mercy Hospital - Founding of Mercy

"… of Mercy Text contributions from Ian Saxine, MHS Historian. Items courtesy of Mercy Hospital. In the autumn of 1918, the greatest health crisis…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"As the early historian R.G.F. Candage said they were: "desirous of forming a new community, perhaps an ideal one; so they came to Maine, there being…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"A historian, Sumner R. Newell, Esq., wrote a short book titled, A Brief Historical Sketch of the Life and Sufferings of Leonard Trask, the Wonderful…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… Society Archives and Artifacts Peter Stowell, DHS Historian DHS Ephemera Collection Loraine Welch Smith Scrapbooks, DHS Collection #028 Rose Family…"

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"… Marnie and Del Voter, with the help of local historian and former State Representative Herb Adams, may have found the closest thing to a smoking…"

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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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

"… by Katie Murphy, with grateful thanks to our town historians Sources Used for this Exhibit The Church at Walnut Hill: a History of the First…"

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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