Keywords: Moosehead Manufacturing Co.
Item 78769
Aerial View of the Monson-Maine Slate Quarry, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: 1930 Location: Monson Media: Photographic print
Item 99387
Veneer Products Co., Greenville, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Moosehead Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Greenville Media: Photographic print
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
Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3
"… make improvements, becoming well known for their Moosehead Blanket line. In the flood April of 1923, water overflowed the concrete abutments…"
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3
"These 600 photographs were taken all over the Moosehead and Rangeley Lakes region. Fly Rod is present in a few of them and occasionally accompanied…"
