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Eddington is a town located on the eastern side of the Penobscot River in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census , the town had a population of 2,194. [ 2 ]
The John G. Coburn Farm is a historic farmstead at 434 Carthage Road (Maine State Route 142) in Carthage, Maine. The farmhouse, a two-story brick structure built in 1824, stands on the west side of the road just north of its crossing of the Webb River. The house is regionally distinctive as the only brick building in the Webb River valley.
The Peabody-Fitch House, also known as Narramissic Farm, is a historic farm property on Ingalls Road in Bridgton, Maine. It is a well-preserved late 18th to early 19th century farmstead, now owned and operated by the local historical society as a museum property. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1]
The house and farm make up an unusually well-preserved 19th-century saltwater farm. The house, which dates to the late 18th or early 19th century, was once part of a larger group of agricultural outbuildings, none of which have survived. The farm was in active use until 1960, [2] and the last of the Pettengills that lived on the farm died in 1981.
The farm's current size is 100 acres (40 ha), down from a reported maximum of 600 acres (240 ha), consisting of about 60 acres (24 ha) of cleared land, and the balance in woodland. The farm complex is located on the east side of Horseback Road, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of Troy Road.
Evidence of prehistoric activity includes a long barrow at Tinhead Hill. [6]The ancient parish had three tithings: Edington, Tinhead, and Baynton and Coulston. [4] The parish was part of the hundred of Whorwellsdown and is believed to hold a place in English history, for it was probably here that King Alfred the Great won a decisive battle in 878 against the Danes at the Battle of Edington ...
Some areas of his lineage are unclear. He was possibly the son of consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus. [2] If so, he was also great-grandson of Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (consul of 50 BC and brother of the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus), and through his mother Julia the Younger, Lepidus was the great grandson of Emperor Augustus. [3]
Benjamin Vernon Lilly or Ben Lilly (1856 – December 17, 1936), nicknamed Ol' Lilly, was a notorious big game hunter, houndsman and mountain man of the late American Old West.