Keywords: mill yard
Item 63739
C. V. Starbird Store and mill yard, Strong, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Strong Media: Glass Negative
Item 104701
Laminator #1 at Pepperell Mill, Biddeford, 2009
Contributed by: Biddeford Mills Museum Date: circa 1965 Location: Biddeford Media: Digital Photo
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.
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.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825
"Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825 Site of Vose's Wharf, Thomaston, Maine 2009Thomaston Historical Society Philip Hanson arrived from…"
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls
"… that the best plan would be to let a job by the yard to blast away the rock there and put in the piers at the lower end of the dam and the filling…"
