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Item 16817
Title: Power Station, Springvale, ca 1905
Contributed by: Sanford Historical Committee
Date: circa 1905
Location: Springvale
Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 22723
Title: Electric Power Station, Androscoggin River, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society
Date: circa 1880
Location: Brunswick
Media: Photograph
Item 33662
Title: Tidal power project dam map, Lubec, 1980
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society
Date: 1980
Location: Lubec
Media: Map; ink on paper
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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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Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.