Maine Memory Network

Bicycle race, Fairfield, 1888

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1888 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Morris Fruit and Confectionary Store, Skowhegan, ca. 1888

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1888 Location: Skowhegan; Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Making Paper, Making Maine

Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.

The Nativist Klan

In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.

John Martin: Expert Observer - Annie Martin Snow casket, Bangor, 1889

"… on page 80 of a scrapbook he wrote beginning in 1888. Under the illustration, he wrote: "At the head of the casket were immence Boquets No 1 & 2…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 2 of 2

"1888: Operations were halted for five years due to the distance of the timber to market. The mill could not compete with the growing number of mills…"

John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.