Keywords: Electric Generating Plant
Item 33869
Electric generating plant view, Lubec, ca. 1960, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1960 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 33870
Electric generating plant closeup, Lubec, ca. 1960, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1960 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
Exhibit
Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Wiscasset generated electricity from 1972 until 1996. Activists concerned about the plant's safety led three unsuccessful referendum campaigns in the 1980s to shut it down.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal
"Others are more surprising: who was inoculated against diseases and how, types of fruit trees and other plants that Martin grew and how he took care…"
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4
"Power now was in abundance such that electrical power was made available for many miles from its point of origin."
