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Historical Items Showing 3 of 224 View All
Item 14245
Title: Artillery Machine Gun
Contributed by: Bucksport Historical Society
Date: 1895
Location: Bucksport
Media: Metal
Item 12375
Title: McDowell Garment Drafting Machine, 1912
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum
Date: 1912
Location: Littleton; New York
Media: brass
Item 16979
Title: Hand Cranked Sewing Machine, c. 1870
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Date: circa 1870
Location: Houlton
Media: steel
Tax Records Showing 3 of 20 View All
Item 62054
Item 37219
Address: 11-13 Commercial Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: Estate of Patrick Keating
Use: Shop - Machine
Item 37234
Address: 25-31 Commercial Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: W.L. Blake & Co.
Use: Warehouse & Machine Shop
Exhibits Showing 3 of 4 View All
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Silk Manufacturing in Westbrook
Cultivation of silkworms and manufacture of silk thread was touted as a new agricultural boon for Maine in the early 19th century. However, only small-scale silk production followed. In 1874, the Haskell Silk Co. of Westbrook changed that, importing raw silk, and producing silk machine twist threat, then fabrics, until its demise in 1930.
Exhibit
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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Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.