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Road Repair Tax for 1904 Penobscot County
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Aroostook War: Historical Sketch and Roster of Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Men Called into Service for the Protection of the Northeastern Frontier of Maine, from February to May, 1839
Get PDFAmong the many important events in the early history of the State of Maine one of much interest is that known as the Aroostook War, a brief sketch of which is given below. By the treaty of 1783, at the close of the Revolutionary struggle, one-half of the St. John\u27s River belonged to Maine.
After the war of 1812, the British claimed the whole of the upper part of the vast valley of the St. John. They demanded all the land above the forty-sixth degree of north latitude, which included about one-third of what was supposed to be the territory of Maine. There was at this time, on the north or eastern side of the river, an American settlement extending for a distance of nearly twenty miles.
The inhabitants were principally of French descent, and had emigrated to that American region when the English took possession of Arcadia. This plantation had been incorporated as the town of Madawaska, and a representative was sent to the legislature of Maine. In June, 1837, Congress sent an officer to Madawaska to take a census of the people, and at the same time to distribute the surplus money which had accumulated in the United States treasury. A British constable arrested this agent and carried his prisoner to the nearest English shire town. But the sheriff there, alarmed, refused to receive the prisoner, and he returned to Madawaska, and continued to prosecute his mission.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1277/thumbnail.jp
In the Maine Woods: 1904 Edition
Get PDFWhen early man went off on a vacation he invariably took to the woods -- because he had no other place to go to. He hunted, he fished, he roamed the forests with such delight as can come only to a true lover of the woods; and it is possible that, just for fun, he may have worked a log into the waters of some winding stream and, sitting astride of it, have been borne along with the gliding current, enthusing all the while over the sylvan splendors which spread out in panoramic magnificence on every side.
Today, the vacationist takes to the woods from choice; and if his route leads him into the depths of the great Maine forests where the woods are well-nigh primeval and where the lakes and rivers and lesser waterways lave the same shores they have known for centuries, then his cup of joy becomes filled to the very brim.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/1016/thumbnail.jp
In the Maine Woods: 1903 Edition (Title: Haunts of the Hunted)
Get PDFIt was more than half a century ago when Thoreau, plunging deep into the wilderness of the Katahdin country, got his first taste of the ecstasies of existence in the great Maine woods. We have his own enthusiastic account of the trip -- of endless windings up river, lake and stream; of panoramic splendors by green -- girt shores and forest-covered ridges; and of life ideal in silent sylvan fastnesses. He went to seek a wilderness; he found a mammoth park of nature\u27s most picturesque making, where naught but great green forests covered hill and dale as far as eye could see and where sinuous waterways offered the only path by which the traveler could get in touch with this wildly rugged land of beauty.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/1026/thumbnail.jp
Bowdoin College Class of 1853, 50th Anniversary
Get PDFProvides, among other features, a Roll of the Bowdoin College Class of 1853, whith dates and places of death of those deceased, and residence and occupation of living members, (so far as known) in 1903.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1167/thumbnail.jp
49 Hammond Street, Bangor, Maine, Circa 1903-1912
No full text49 Hammond Street circa 1903-1924. At least five businesses are visible: The Shaw Business College, The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., McClure\u27s Insurance Agency, American Express Company, and Pearl & Dennett Real Estate & Insurance. All of these businesses were found at the 49 Hammond vicinity in the 1903 Bangor city directory. 1903 is the earliest date each is found at 49 Hammond. By 1912 the listing for McClure\u27s had changed to J.W. McClure and Son. This is the basis for our estimated time frame.
James W. McClure and J. Harvey McClure were the McClures. Pearl & Dennett were Charles S. Pearl and Carl P. Dennett.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1134/thumbnail.jp
Main Street, Bangor, Maine, circa 1903-1905
No full textThe very busy intersection of Main Street, Hammond Street, and Central Street in Bangor, Maine circa 1903-1905. Narrowing into this date range possible by consulting Bangor city directories. Fox & Adams Wholesale and Retail Confectioners had moved to Exchange Street by 1905. Allan P. Trask / Watches, Clocks, Jewelry first appeared at this location on Main Street in the 1905 directory. It is possible Trask\u27s moved into this location in 1903 after the city directory for that year had been published.
Photograph well-worth zooming in. A woman sits an umbrella in an open window above Confectionery Manufactory. The tower of Bangor City Hall on Columbia Street looms above this woman. Bangor Street Railway cars #55 and #37 can be identified.
Businesses shown in photograph are:
Fox & Adams at 27 Main Street. Proprietors Elmer R. Fox and Edward C. Adams.
E.J. Davis & Co., Boots, Shoes & Rubbers at 23 Main Street. Edwin J. Davis owner.
Allan P. Trask, jeweler, at 21 Main Street.
Standard Clothing Co. (store has cow on board above street) at 11 Main Street. John F. Crowley, manager.
Ramsdell Studio at 3 Main Street. Emily I. Ramsdell, photographer.
Lyford & Woodward, sellers of hats, furs, etc., at 31-33 Hammond Street. Thornton Lyford and Charles E. Woodward, proprietors.
Edward Conners: not listed in directories.
Adolf Pfaff, watchmaker and jeweler at 25 Hammond Street.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1187/thumbnail.jp
Road Repair Tax for 1903 Penobscot County
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1903 Bangor Brewer Old Town Orono City Directory
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Flood Waters on the Penobscot River from the Bangor-Brewer Flood of 1902, Number 2
No full textPhotograph presumably from the Bangor side of the Penobscot River, with Brewer in the background.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_flood_1902/1015/thumbnail.jp