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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"… top of the hill about two miles east of Guilford Village and across from Guilford Industries yarn mill."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"The original proprietors were residents of the village that would later become Cumberland, as well as of the Walnut Hill area."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… after the war, increasing the contact between the villages on the island. Swan’s Island cars were often patched-together machines that were…"

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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…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… Harlow, a farmer and the appointed keeper of the village pound for some time. Judge Charles W. Walton of the Supreme Court of the State of Maine…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"The school was a mile from Dixfield Village on the Trask Road, now known as Leavitt Street. A school building was erected on Roxbury Road and one…"

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

"… Oil on paperboard Collections of Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA X Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam, ca."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… Congregational Church) in the Farmington Falls Village. Two pictures survive of the building itself showing murals on the walls."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"The while village are paying their respects to the fine lady, who keeps {house} dressed in her brocade, for the reception of callers."

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… patrons a day, now borders the present-day Avalon Village Retirement Community off Route 1A. But memories are kept alive in the stories told by an…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… Streets, on top of the hill which surmounts the village area of Lubec, was home to Lubec School for about a century."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"The village is nearly as large as Thomaston and very pleasantly situated on a tributary to the James River."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… federal-style houses that grace the shaded village streets of Blue Hill today were built in the early nineteenth century with profits made from…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… in Scarborough remaining a town of separate villages, each with its own church and school. Dunstan and Portland were connected by a road inland…"

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"Oddly, though, after the village was cleared from Malaga, nothing ever happened on the island. No hotels. No spas. No second homes or cottages."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"Each village has a plentiful supply of church edifices, and a high grade educational institution at which pupils are fitted for any college in the…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… shops and businesses operated in Dark Harbor Village. Derby Road sported a candy and sundry shop, post office and library in one block."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… there was a spur that traveled into West Peru village to service a brick factory and other businesses."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… to the “Fairbanks” area, north of the center village and built a mill that was in operation for several decades. Haying c."

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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… Historical Society Bridge construction and village streets, Lubec, 1962 Lubec Historical Society But for the roadway most bridgework was…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

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

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

"… of the employees are residents of the towns and villages in which the canneries are located. Quite a number, however, come from the islands in the…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… in the area of Bath, no permanent Native American villages occupied the site. And, no settlements resulted from early European explorations of the…"