Maine Memory Network

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"… Portland Historical Society The village of New Portland was commonly known as West Portland and today is referred to as the West Village by most…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"New Portland Fair 1951New Portland Historical Society In 1906 a corporation for a water company was formed. Warren B. Clark, E."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Business as Usual

"… illegal to drink, possess, or sell alcohol but manufacturing remained legal until a stricter law was added to the Maine Constitution in 1885."

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

"Geneva Wood Fuels bought the former Forster Manufacturing Inc. mill and invested $13 million to renovate the plant."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"By 1880 John Bangs was a clothing manufacturer. Mr. Bangs had a wife, Clara, and three sons, and by 1910 he was a widower, living in Nebraska."

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

"Other companies processed and distributed milk, cream, and butter, and the surplus milk was used to make cheese."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"… to Farmington, Strong, Phillips, Kingfield, New Portland, and Anson. When a bridge was built in 1828 across the Sandy River, the stagecoaches…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 1 of 3

"… January, 2012, at the Maine Historical Society in Portland. The three teams learned to build their exhibits and websites for their projects."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"She took a job on the Portland Transcript in 1855, and the next year published her first book of poetry, Forest Buds from the Woods of Maine, under…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3

"… of 24 Lodges assembled at Masons' Hall in Portland to organize the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Maine."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 1 of 2

"… Light and Water Company, Rumford Falls Woolen Company, Rumford Falls Realty Company, and, finally, Oxford Paper Company (which was to become a…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 1 of 3

"… of colored, affordable (but not cheap), American manufactured silk yardage could be found in the new burgeoning city department stores, including…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1870 to 1915

"… South Carolina, owned by Spanish company Cementos Portland Valderrivas, operates Dragon Products, the only cement manufacturing facility in New…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… 12, 1893, when The Rumford Falls Paper Company manufactured its first paper. Its capacity was 60 tons of newsprint per day."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… first hundred years of the Pepperell Manufacturing Company, incorporated February 16, 1844. Boston: Pepperell Manufacturing Company, 1945. (N)"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"The company was founded in Portland in 1872, and at one time was only one of seven such companies in the country."

Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"… in his Topsham studio starting in 1967 where he manufactured most parts of the instruments from the washers to the bent wood."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"American Can Company built a plant for the manufacture of two-piece, drawn cans, employing hundreds of workers."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… of the times indicate anything, some kind of manufacturing will be in successful operation here in less than two years from the day the first train…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"builds plant in Lubec for manufacture of two-piece drawn cans 1910 • Census results – 3,363 1911 • Lubec Centennial Celebration held on July 4 --…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"He also owned a ferry business that went from Portland to South Portland until 1896. He was even in the silver and coal mining business in Maine."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The city witnessed reductions in manufacturing and industry but countered with increases in its commercial base with the opening of the Bangor Mall…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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