Keywords: so. brewer
Item 9528
J.S. Ayer Store, Brewer, ca. 1900
Contributed by: City of Brewer Date: circa 1900 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print
Item 75139
Want ad for female truck drivers, Brewer, ca. 1943
Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1943 Location: Brewer Media: Newspaper
Exhibit
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
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
Brewer is the gateway to coastal communities and Acadia National Park. The city along with Bangor also serves as a trading and distribution center for the coastal areas and towns and cities to the north with the total region having a population of approximately 250,000 people.
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone
"Carolyn A. Stone was born in Brewer, Maine, on October 19 of 1876. She attended Brewer High School, graduating from there in 1894."
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
