Keywords: Jay Point
Item 82029
Otis Mill Machine Shop, Jay, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Maine's Paper & Heritage Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Jay Media: Photographic print
Item 12396
Androscoggin River area map, 1771
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1771-06-11 Location: Jay; Canton; Livermore Falls Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps
The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder
"Like Jay Leno or Jon Stewart who entertain today’s audiences with a clever mixture of farce and facts, he was an Indian showman for his time."
Site Page
"… to make sense of its language starting with the Jay Treaty (1794). This authorized the St. Croix Commission of 1796-98 that established which of…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
