Keywords: Topsham Falls
Item 20985
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1880 Location: Topsham Media: Stereopticon slide
Item 11926
Morrill and Danforth lots, Topsham, 1760
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1760-09-10 Location: Topsham Media: Ink on paper
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In 1893, F.C. Whitehouse of Topsham, who owned paper mills in Topsham and Lisbon Falls, began construction of a third mill on the eastern banks of the Androscoggin River five miles north of Topsham. First, he had to build a dam to harness the river's power.
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.
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"… as Quabecook (Merrymeeting Bay), and the names of falls on the Androscoggin, including Amitgonpontekok (Twenty Miles Falls), which divided…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock
"References: • The History of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine, 1878, by George Augustus Wheeler, M.D."
