Maine Memory Network

Drapers Mill, Guilford, ca. 1948

Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: circa 1948 Location: Guilford 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.

Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye

The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 1 of 2

"Prides Manufacturing Company is located at 169 Water Street in Guilford. Prides owned a saw mill that covered approximately 2,000 square feet."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 3 of 3

"Early Manufacturing Pride Manufacturing Company A third major industry of which the town proudly boasted had a fifty year history here before…"

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down