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    Birch Islands, Edmunds, Maine

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    Birch Islands, Edmunds, Maine. This view was taken from the Capt. Ralph Hallowell farm, South Edmunds, Road, Edmunds, Maine. The foreground is the saltwater farm field with an island between the field and the Birch Islands. Behind the left-hand island is Dram Island and the Pembroke shore. Between the islands and moving right is the Trescott shore in the background.

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    Hallowell's Island in South Edmunds, Maine

    Birch Islands, Edmunds, Maine; This view was taken from the Capt. Ralph Hallowell farm, South Edmunds, Road, Edmunds, Maine. The foreground is the saltwater farm field with an island between the field and the Birch Islands. Behind the lefthand island is Dram Island and the Pembroke shore. Between the islands and moving right is the Trescott shore in the background. Photo courtesy of The Tides Institute, Eastport, Maine
    Birch Islands from the South Edmunds Road.; View of the first of the Birch (or Bitch) Islands across the Hallowell Farm field on the South Edmunds Road. Dram Island is visible on the far side of the Dennys Bay, with Leighton's Neck in Pembroke in the distance on the left. U.S.G.S. map of Edmunds and Dennys Bay in 1945; The Bitch Islands, later called the Birch Islands are visible below Hallowell's Island and the junction of the Dennys and Whiting Bays.