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2. Moosehead Lake - Wikipedia

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   Moosehead Lake is a deep, coldwater lake located in Piscataquis County in Northwestern Maine. It is the largest lake in Maine and the largest lake wholly within New England, the second-largest lake in New England after Lake Champlain, and the largest mountain lake in the eastern United States. Situated in the mostly undeveloped Longfellow ...

3. Saltbox house - Wikipedia

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   A saltbox house is a gable -roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept. The structure's unequal sides and long, low rear roofline ...

4. Lake Hitchcock - Wikipedia

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   Coordinates: 41°49′N 72°38′W. Proglacial and prehistoric lakes of New England during the end of the Wisconsin Glacial Epoch of the Pleistocene Era. [1] Lake Hitchcock was a glacial lake that formed approximately 15,000 years ago in the late Pleistocene epoch. [2] After the Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated, glacial ice melt accumulated at ...

5. List of the oldest buildings in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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   Stanley Lake House: Topsfield 1693 Stanley Lake House, built in 1693, is a historic house at 95 River Road in Topsfield, Massachusetts. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Browne House: Watertown: 1694 Oldest house in Watertown. Parker Tavern: Reading: 1694 Believed to have been built in 1694 by Abraham Bryant.

6. 1938 New England hurricane - Wikipedia

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   Rescuers found live fish and crabs in kitchen drawers and cabinets while searching for survivors in the homes in Mystic. New London was first swept by the winds and storm surge, after which the waterfront business district caught fire and burned out of control for 10 hours. Stately homes along Ocean Beach were leveled by the storm surge.

7. List of New England Fifty Finest - Wikipedia

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   The New England Fifty Finest is a list of mountains in New England, United States, used in the mountaineering sport of peak bagging. The list comprises the 50 summits with the highest topographic prominence — a peak's height above the lowest contour which encloses that peak and no higher peak. The list includes 20 peaks in Maine, 15 in ...