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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Incorporation

"Incorporation Wheeler’s Mills or Souadabscook Plantation or Wheelersborough or Olive and finally Hampden Settlers called the township Souadabscook…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"By 1777, Thomaston had incorporated and included, until 1848, the towns of Rockland and South Thomaston."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"Bath was incorporated as a town in 1781 while Maine was still part of Massachusetts. The community, beginning to grow rapidly, decided to become a…"

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Town of Cumberland

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City of Brewer

Brewer is the gateway to coastal communities and Acadia National Park. The city along with Bangor also serves as a trading and distribution center for the coastal areas and towns and cities to the north with the total region having a population of approximately 250,000 people.

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s

"… Historical Society By the time Thomaston was incorporated in 1777, several enterprising men had started businesses in the “Crick Village” section…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"Not by chance did these towns arise in close proximity to the region’s many rivers, streams, and lakes."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding

"… are nonexistent. By the time Thomaston was incorporated in 1777, several enterprising men had started businesses in the “Crick Village” section, a…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Georges Valley High School

"Teachers at the school look for ways to incorporate the community in the education its children, and the Maine Heritage Community Project has been…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Welcome to Strong

"Incorporated as a town in 1801, it was named Strong, for Gov. Caleb Strong of Massachusetts. High School Yearbook 1923Strong Historical Society…"

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

"In 1913, the townspeople voted to accept the incorporation of Strong Water District, which was created by another act of the legislature."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"Governor Caleb Strong, of Massachusetts, decreed on January 31, 1801, that the town be known as Strong."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Bridge That Changed The Map

"Map of Strong as incorporated, c. 1801Strong Historical Society Strong was incorporated in 1801 as a tract of land rectangular in shape, seven…"

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Millinocket Fire Department

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… resumed in down-river areas, Arrowsic Island was incorporated as the Town of Georgetown in 1716. In 1738 Georgetown was enlarged by the addition of…"

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John Bapst Memorial High School

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Skowhegan Community History - Bloomfield Academy

"The purpose was to create the town's first high school as a private academy. A board of directors was appointed and among the members were Eli…"

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Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… added to the water, a new sanitary district was incorporated, and a tennis court was built as was a 24-unit senior citizen’s complex, which soon…"

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… live there in 1783, but the town was officially incorporated in 1808, just twelve years before Maine separated from Massachusetts and became its…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… Society While Hampden was not the first town incorporated in the Penobscot County area it was the first to be inhabited by white settlers…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"taught school in town. The Town was incorporated in 1794, and at the second town meeting of that year, the town raised a sum of money for “schooling”."

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Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"Oldest known photograph of Guilford, Covered Bridge, ca. 1850Guilford Historical Society Almost every town located in interior Maine was settled…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Resources

"… Bicentennial Committee, 2001 Strong, Maine - "Incorporated 1801," complied by Lewis Brackley and Charles Lisherness, Strong Historical Society…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… a mere fifty-two years after the town was incorporated. Five decades later, Francis Gould Butler picked up Parker’s threads and wove them into a…"