Maine Memory Network

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Mills and Homes in Stockholm

"… baseball bat mill, clothes pin mill, bowling pin mill, two lumber mills, cedar mill, shingle mill, and a lath mill (lath are thin strips of wood…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… paper, flour, leather, shoes, toothpicks, bowling pins, clothespins, shingles, barrels, tool handles."

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"… by laying them crosswise of the raft, driving oak pins into the opposite ends of every sixth or eighth log with two quick strokes of a tiny axe…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"Another company was built to make clothes pins, peavey and pick–pole handles, whiffle–trees, snowshoes and perforated chair seats."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… iron By truckage to Boston By a Paper of Pins By 1/2 bushel of salt By a bunch of thread During the Revolutionary War, John Crosby was…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"… them over A pole supported by 2 cruches and then pin another piece up to the end and A tent is made for 3 men."

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