All posts tagged "Bangor"
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17.5K6Business and Labor6 Historic Stagecoach Stops You Can Visit
The history of New England’s post roads and their stagecoach stops mirror the history of the country. The roads date back to...
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9.6K1Crime and ScandalSteamboat City of Rockland – The Cursed Ship of The Tourist Trade
Construction started on the City of Rockland at East Boston’s McKie Shipbuilding Company in 1900. By 1901 she sailed regular runs up...
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5.6K8bostonJohn Alfred Poor Takes a Sleigh Ride, Steals a Railroad
In February 1845, John Alfred Poor made an epic five-day dash through a blizzard in the White Mountains to snatch a railroad...
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15.4K6Business and LaborThe Great Maine Potato War — The Year the Spuds Didn’t Show Up
It was May of 1976. The Apple Computer Company had started a month ago, The Bad News Bears showed in theaters, kids hummed...
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35.2K3MaineThe Needham, A Potato Candy Sacred and Peculiar to Maine
The Maine potato candy known as the needham has always stood in the shadow of the whoopie pie, but generations of Mainers have...
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11.7K2Arts and LeisureLouis Sockalexis, The Indian Athlete With the Tragic Flaw
Louis Sockalexis broke a different color barrier in baseball 50 years before Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was a...
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