Keywords: hardwood mill
Item 30858
Aftermath of Hardwood Products Fire, Guilford, 1958
Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: 1958 Location: Guilford Media: Photographic print
Item 100999
Hardwood logs unloaded on ice, Lovewell Pond, 1938
Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1938 Location: Fryeburg Media: Photographic print
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.
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.
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls
"I think I can buy hardwood logs if wish to so that as to timber we can be supplied. As to the filling, it seems to me that as there is a large amount…"
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3
"Hardwood Products Company Following a variety of small, one man saw mills, one of the first manufacturers utilizing forest products on a large scale…"
Story
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
