Keywords: Coopers Mills Baptist Church
Item 102745
Main Street, Coopers Mills, Whitefield, ca. 1910
Contributed by: An individual through Whitefield Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Whitefield Media: Postcard
Item 100350
Coopers Mills Baptist Church, Whitefield, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Whitefield Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Whitefield Media: Postcard
Exhibit
Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.
Exhibit
Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875
Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Bonnie and Donnie Staples' house
"… is located at 439 Atlantic Rd, across from the Baptist Church. Grover Cleveland 'Clevie' (1885-1967) and Bessie (Joyce) (1893-1989) Dunham opened…"
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII
"The Baptist Church was founded in 1817, and the church building itself was constructed in 1883. Baptists, Methodists, Advent Christians, and the…"
