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Title: Moving a Boiler, c. 1890, Caribou, Maine

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library

Date: circa 1890

Location: Caribou

Media: monochrome photograph

Title: Forest Paper Co. boiler room, Yarmouth, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Yarmouth Historical Society

Date: circa 1900

Location: Yarmouth

Media: Photograph

Title: Sanford Mills Boiler Room

Contributed by: Sanford Historical Committee

Date: circa 1905

Location: Sanford

Media: Print from Glass Negative

Address: 168 Brentwood Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Moses B Clemens

Use: Boiler House

Address: 168 Brentwood Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Moses B Clemens

Use: Boiler House

Address: 481-511 Commercial Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Co.

Use: Boiler House

Yarmouth: Leader in Soda Pulp

Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.