• Orrington is a town on the Penobscot River estuary in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,812 at the 2020 census. Orrington was...
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    also called "New Worcester" after John Brewer's birthplace. In 1788, Orrington, Maine was incorporated with Brewer/New Worcester as its major village. The...
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    Ludlow, Maine is also the setting of the novels Pet Sematary and The Dark Half by Stephen King. This fictional town is based on Orrington, Maine near the...
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    Pet Sematary (category Novels set in Maine)
    "writer-in-residence" at the University of Maine and the house his family was renting in Orrington, Maine, was adjacent to a major road where dogs and...
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    Garrett Biblical Institute and the Methodist Church. Orrington Lunt was born in Bowdoinham, Maine on December 24, 1815, the son of a merchant, William...
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    J. Sumner Rogers (category People from Orrington, Maine)
    was an American educator and United States Army officer. A native of Orrington, Maine, he was a veteran of the American Civil War and was most notable as...
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  • flying a kite. The King family was then staying in a spooky house in Orrington, Maine – a place which had a real pet cemetery. Gage is portrayed in the 1989...
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    northeast, and (separated by the Penobscot River) Brewer to the northeast and Orrington to the east. This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature...
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  • Ethel Baker (category People from Orrington, Maine)
    1990) was an American politician from Maine. Baker, a Republican from Orrington, Maine, served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1959 to 1974...
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    Maxfield Medway Milford Millinocket Mount Chase Newburgh Newport Orono Orrington Passadumkeag Patten Plymouth Springfield Stacyville Stetson Veazie Winn...
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  • Enterprise Grange, No. 173 (category Grange organizations and buildings in Maine)
    Enterprise Grange, No. 173 is a historic Grange hall at 446 Dow Road in Orrington, Maine. Built in 1884 and enlarged in the early 20th century, this modest...
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    Calvin Ryder (category People from Orrington, Maine)
    in Maine and Massachusetts. A number of his surviving buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Ryder was born in Orrington, Maine...
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    Molly Kool (category People from Bangor, Maine)
    Blaisdell of Bucksport, Maine in 1944. Blaisdell died in the 1960s and she remarried, wedding John Carney of Orrington, Maine. Kool eventually retired...
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    Bowdoinham is a town in Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States. Bowdoinham was included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town...
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    Maine is a state located in the Northeastern United States. According to the 2020 United States census, Maine is the 9th least populous state, with 1...
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  • Edward A. Pierce (category People from Orrington, Maine)
    Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Pierce was born in 1874 in Orrington, Maine, and attended Bowdoin College before dropping out. The college conferred...
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    Benjamin Franklin Mudge (category People from Orrington, Maine)
    Allosaurus, with his protégé Samuel Wendell Williston. Mudge was born in Orrington, Maine to James and Ruth Mudge on August 11, 1817, and moved with his family...
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    Ebenezer M. Chamberlain (category People from Orrington, Maine)
    one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana 1853 to 1855. Born in Orrington, Maine, Chamberlain attended public school before becoming employed in his...
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  • Richard H. Campbell (category Republican Party members of the Maine House of Representatives)
    as a member of the Maine House of Representatives since December 7, 2022. He was first elected to the 40th district in the 2012 Maine House of Representatives...
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    Penobscot River (category Rivers of Maine)
    problem was traced back to HoltraChem, a chemical plant located in Orrington, Maine HoltraChem was responsible for producing many of the chemicals used...
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    The qualifications for this list of Maine lakes is that the lake is located partially or entirely in Maine, named, and has a surface area of more than...
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    code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Maine. Area code 207 was created as one of the original North American area codes...
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  • Thomas H. Mudge (category People from Orrington, Maine)
    Mudge (1815–1862) was an American Methodist Episcopal clergyman, born at Orrington, Me., the nephew of Enoch Mudge. He graduated from Wesleyan University...
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  • Maine Central Railroad began operating diesel locomotives in 1935, and had retired all steam locomotives by 1954. That time interval was a joint operating...
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    U. S. Route 1 and state routes 3, 15 and 46. It borders the towns of Orrington and Holden to the north, Dedham and Orland to the east, and (separated...
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  • Burton Hatlen (category Deaths from pneumonia in Maine)
    Karlson (b. 1938 d. 2010), had two daughters. The couple moved to Orrington, Maine, in 1967 and later divorced. He married his second wife, Virginia Nees-Hatlen...
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  • 72056°N 68.78889°W / 44.72056; -68.78889 (Enterprise Grange, No. 173) Orrington, Maine Italianate architecture 27 Upton Grange No. 404 (Former), 1899 built...
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  • an itinerant preacher in Maine until 1799, when his health gave way and he was forced to retire. He settled in Orrington, Maine, and was twice chosen Representative...
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    The Maine House of Representatives is the lower house of the Maine Legislature. The House consists of 151 voting members and three nonvoting members. The...
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  • activist Lexington, Kentucky March 3, 2010 Benjamin Franklin Mudge Orrington, Maine August 11, 1817 lawyer, geologist, politician, and educator Manhattan...
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