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Moose Island, Maine

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occupies several islands, including its major land mass, Moose Island. Other islands comprising the city include Carlow Island, Spectacle Island, Goose Island, and Treat Island, along with other islets. Quoddy Village lies at the north-western end of Moose Island, while the city's downtown lies at
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and annexed the territory to New Brunswick....Some have speculated that it was Carleton's memory of this unpleasant experience from his adolescence—of his family having to endure a bitter, protracted, worrisome dispute along what amounted to a wild frontier—that gave him later in life
172:"Moose Island, Maine" was the fictional location where Jimmy Olsen's Aunt Louisa lived in the first season, second episode of "Adventures of Superman" which originally aired on September 26, 1952. 164:. Author Hampton Sides states: "The time of Carleton's youth was a fragile period in the history of eastern Maine. During the War of 1812, British forces had occupied most of Maine east of the 141:. Part of this project involved construction of a tidal barrage between Moose Island and Pleasant Point to contain the waters of Cobscook Bay, resulting in the present-day causeway carrying 871: 92: 923: 552: 47: 254: 149:. However, the railroad was built 1897-1898, on trestles between islands, to reach Moose Island. The causeway filled in where the trestles ran. 98:
Following the war, the United States relinquished its claim in 1817 on several larger islands in the Bay of Fundy that Britain also claimed: (
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such an urgent impatience to solve the Navajo problem with clean, stark finality."
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seized Moose Island while taking control of the entire Maine coast from
226:'The Haunted Lighthouse', S1 E2, "The Adventures of Superman", 1952. 232: 204:. Pepperell, Massachusetts USA: Branch Line Press, 2000: 314-315. 236: 110:). In return, Britain relinquished its claim on islands in 824: 776: 748: 710: 687: 669: 606: 523: 408: 270: 154:Brigadier General James Henry Carleton (b. 1814) 872:Disputed between the United States and Canada 248: 8: 255: 241: 233: 48:Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Reservation 193: 217:. New York: Anchor Books, 2006: 286-7. 202:The Rail Lines of Northern New England 42:Connected to the mainland portion of 7: 924:Islands of Washington County, Maine 59:the eastern end of the island. 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Index

Eastport, Maine
Cobscook Bay
Passamaquoddy Bay
Bay of Fundy
Shackford Head State Park
Washington County
Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Reservation
causeway
Eastport
Eastport Municipal Airport
Quoddy Village
War of 1812
Sir Thomas Hardy
Andrew Pilkington
Penobscot Bay
St. Croix River
Campobello Island
Deer Island
Grand Manan Island
Cobscook Bay
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Quoddy Project
tidal power
Cobscook Bay
New Deal
Public Works Administration
Maine State Route 190
Maine Central Railroad
Brigadier General James Henry Carleton (b. 1814)
New Mexico

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