Keywords: Rushing water
Item 6687
Contributed by: Androscoggin Historical Society Date: circa 1936 Location: Lewiston; Auburn Media: Photographic print
Item 148254
Flooded Androscoggin River, 1936
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1936-03-20 Location: Lewiston; Auburn Media: glass plate negative
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Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town
Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.
Exhibit
Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax
"… need of a trip to Alaska!” (The Alaskan Gold Rush was in full swing at this time, the major difference being that actual gold was being found…"
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1620 to 1820: New England's Great Secret
"Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia, a leading physician, helped introduce the notion that alcohol was not always a medicine."
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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
