Keywords: wet end
Item 82062
#1 paper machine, Otis Mill, Jay, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine's Paper & Heritage Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Jay Media: Photographic print
Item 10570
Workers at Pejepscot Paper Company, Topsham, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Topsham Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Prohibition in Maine in the 1920s
Federal Prohibition took hold of America in 1920 with the passing of the Volstead Act that banned the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the US. However, Maine had the Temperance movement long before anyone was prohibited from taking part in one of America's most popular past times. Starting in 1851, the struggles between the "drys" and the "wets" of Maine lasted for 82 years, a period of time that was everything but dry and rife with nothing but illegal activity.
Exhibit
Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.
Site Page
"You could also get wet very easily from riding the ferry, but with the bridge, it is higher than the water so that you cannot get wet or have it…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond
"Terrible! Cold in the winter and cold and wet in the summer. Horrible. I can remember my father in the winter staring the kitchen window at the…"
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
