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Historical Items

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Item 29358

Marsh Staddle, Scarborough, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Scarborough Media: Postcard

Item 6725

Sumner Kimball, Lovell

Contributed by: Lovell Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Lovell Media: Photographic print

Item 5868

Hauling wood in Millinocket, 1980

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1980-03-05 Location: Millinocket Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town

Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.

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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.

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Making Paper, Making Maine

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.

Site Pages

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Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… period the average homestead consumed 20-30 cords of wood per year. If they had energy left they could attempt to clear and till five acres of land…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Pulp & Paper Mill, Lincoln, 1957 - Page 1 of 2

"… silos to the left can hold up to two hundred cords of wood chips. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"… could buy a barrel of flour for the price of a cord of wood. They also sold large dried codfish, which customers would take home to hang in their…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall

Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.

Story

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down