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Keywords: trestles
Historical Items Showing 3 of 53 View All
Item 67525
Title: Poplar, Forest Paper Co., Yarmouth, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Yarmouth Historical Society
Date: circa 1880
Location: Yarmouth
Media: Photograph
Item 13320
Title: Bangor and Aroostook Railroad trestle, Houlton - 1894
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Date: 1894
Location: Houlton
Media: monochrome photograph
Item 35505
Title: Bangor and Aroostook Railroad trestle, Sheridan, ca. 1902
Contributed by: Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library
Date: circa 1902
Location: Ashland
Media: glass negative
Tax Records Showing 3 of 6 View All
Item 37438
Address: 550-566 Commercial Street (rear), Portland
Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Co.
Use: Trestles & Towers
Item 37496
Item 69337
Exhibits Showing 2 of 2 View All
Exhibit
History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways
Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.
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.