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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Book is in pristine condition. this work covers the Schoodic Peninsula's evolution from an unsettled frontier through two wars and near-starvation. Rather than a dry academic timeline, it "paints a vivid picture of the frontier town and features colorful portraits of the people who established a new settlement." The first book about Gouldsboro's history, tracing the eastern Hancock County town's founding and evolution from Colonial times, has been published and released by the Gouldsboro Historical Society. Published, in conjunction with Maine's 200th birthday and bicentennial celebration.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Book is in pristine condition. An exhaustive "every-name" lookup. While the original 1904 text mentions hundreds of residents in passing within old diaries, military lists, and town logs, this book cross-references every single surname and given name to its exact original page. The index is invaluable because the original text was organized chronologically and by topic, making it impossible to find family lines without guessing. The standalone index rescues data that would otherwise be lost to a manual skim. Because the original book relied on community memories, the 1984 index served as a cross-referencing tool to match the text against official Hancock County courthouse records.…