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Historical Items

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Item 101612

Steam sawmill, North Berwick, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Old Berwick Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: North Berwick Media: Photographic print

Item 22215

Map of Fort Fairfield, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1870 Location: Fort Fairfield Media: Ink on paper

Item 18616

Lobster trap mill, Steep Falls, 1946

Contributed by: An individual through Steep Falls Library Date: circa 1940 Location: Standish Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

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.

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In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age

"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.

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Yarmouth: Leader in Soda Pulp

Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

""Lombard Steam Log Hauler Goes Full Steam Ahead." Maine News, Weather, Sports Channel 6 NBC Portland | WCSH6.com | Portland, ME. Web. 6 Apr. 2010."

Site Page

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"It was a small steam powered mill with a round rotary saw. The carriage, which moved the lumber along the saw, was short and referred to by locals as…"

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"But the mills that once run buzzing saws/Have now gone to decay/And the business men who built them/Have long since passed away."