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Description
Postcard view of a log-filled canal off the Androscoggin River in the foreground with the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway Station with its clock tower across the way.
The view, looking northeast, also shows the Hartford Street bridge. The canal was created to divert water and logs into the paper mill complex.
About This Item
- Title: Portland & Rumford Falls Railway Station, Rumford Falls, ca. 1911
- Creator: G.A. Peabody Company
- Creation Date: circa 1911
- Subject Date: circa 1911
- Location: Rumford, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Postcard
- Local Code: Coll. 4014
- Collection: Postcard collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Androscoggin River (N.H. and Me.)
- Booms (Log transportation)
- Clock towers--Maine--Rumford
- Log transportation--Maine
- Paper industry--Maine
- Portland & Rumford Falls Railway
- Railroad stations--Maine--Rumford
- Railroads--Maine--Rumford
- Rivers--Maine
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