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Historical Items

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Item 78797

Slate Mill operation, Monson, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Monson Media: Photographic print

Item 9182

Monson-Maine Slate Company mill, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Monson Media: Photographic print

Item 78882

Cutting slate, Barnard, 1951

Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: 1951-09-12 Location: Barnard Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Extracting Wealth

Maine's natural resources -- granite, limestone and slate in particular -- along with its excellent ports made it a leader in mining and production of the valuable building materials. Stone work also attracted numerous skilled immigrants.

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Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

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CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections

Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.

Site Pages

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Historic Hallowell - Industry on the Bombahook Citations

""Revision History of Slate." Wikipedia. Ed. Mike Norton. 11 Apr. 2011. Rivard, Paul E. Maine Sawmills: a History."

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Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"The slate was made of clay or volcanic ash. Slate, a rock formed from shale and mined by quarrying, had low heat and not very much pressure put on it."

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 2 of 17

"… and processed fish; mined and cut granite and slate; cut and shipped ice, as well as farmed the state's rocky soils."