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  Millinocket, Maine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Millinocket is a mill town in Penobscot County, Maine, USA.
As the location of the mill was not near any existing towns, it became necessary to build a town to house the people who were to be employed at the mill.
Millinocket has been growing a service economy and has grown into a major whitewater rafting center.
www.gogog.com /project/wikipedia/index.php/Millinocket,_Maine   (673 words)

  
 Maine Local Government - Town of East Millinocket - Main Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
East Millinocket is a town in Penobscot County, incorporated on February 21, 1907 from a portion of TA R7 WELS township, formerly known as Burnt Land Rips.
The Dolby Dam across the West Branch of the Penobscot River flooded the northeast section of the town creating Dolby Pond, across which Routes 11 and 157 pass linking the town to Millinocket and the south entrance to Baxter State Park.
A source of well-paid employment for nearly a century, the paper mill has been under economic pressure in recent years, a partial cause of the loss in population of over 15 percent during the 1990-2000 decade.
www.state.me.us /local/penobscot/east_millinocket   (141 words)

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