Saturday, Sept. 19
• Exactly 200 years ago, a group of local farmers in Fryeburg changed the course of the Saco River with oxen and hand tools. They dug a canal at their own expense. It was completed in 1820, the same year Maine finally broke from Massachusetts to become its own state.
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