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Item 9048
Title: Pulp Mill, Skowhegan, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House
Date: circa 1900
Location: Skowhegan
Media: Photograph
Item 31548
Title: Pulp mill, Lincoln, 1915
Contributed by: Lincoln Historical Society
Date: 1915
Location: Lincoln
Media: photograph
Item 31390
Title: Pulp Mill, Penobscot River, 1902
Contributed by: Lincoln Historical Society
Date: 1902
Location: Lincoln
Media: Photograph
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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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In 1893, F.C. Whitehouse of Topsham, who owned paper mills in Topsham and Lisbon Falls, began construction of a third mill on the eastern banks of the Androscoggin River five miles north of Topsham. First, he had to build a dam to harness the river's power.
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The paper mill on the Penobscot River in South Brewer, which became known as Eastern Fine Paper Co., began as a sawmill in 1884 and grew over the years as an important part of the economy of the region and a large presence in the landscape. Its closing in 2005 affected more than the men and women who lost their jobs.