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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Primary School, ca. 1910

"Lincoln Primary School, ca. 1910 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description A classroom of twenty-six children and their…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description In the summer of 1918, the citizens of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Center Baptist Church, Lincoln, ca. 1900

"Lincoln Center Baptist Church, Lincoln, ca. 1900 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The first clergyman associated with…"

Lincoln, Maine - Primary school on School Street, Lincoln, ca. 1905

"Primary school on School Street, Lincoln, ca. 1905 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This school was built in the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Center school, ca. 1950

"Lincoln Center school, ca. 1950 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The Lincoln Center school was built in 1926 to…"

Lincoln, Maine - South Lincoln schoolhouse, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"South Lincoln schoolhouse, Lincoln, ca. 1930 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The first school house in South Lincoln…"

Lincoln, Maine - View of Mattanawcook Lake from Clark Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890

"View of Mattanawcook Lake from Clark Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This is a beautiful…"

Lincoln, Maine - High Street Bridge, Lincoln, ca. 1903

"High Street Bridge, Lincoln, ca. 1903 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This is the High Street Bridge built in the…"

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"… and from the land, and some of them worked at the paper mill in Bucksport. “Summer people” in Surry and in Blue Hill provided seasonal employment…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"… Flint Paper Company bought out the Sand Paper Mill, Reservoir Dam, Glue Mill, Quartz Mill, Machinery & Oil Mill, and Flint Paper Stock Isinglass &…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"In 1840 another Hampden mill, the Norton Paper Mill, began operation using machinery to make paper on a continuous roll."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 10 of 17

"… on Fort Sumter was not likely, because Boston papers stated that Confederate President Jefferson Davis had telegraphed to Charleston not to prevent…"

Ambajejus Boom House

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"In 1840 another Hampden mill, the Norton Paper Mill, began operation using machinery to make paper on a continuous roll."

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"Timbers, bricks, gravel, and tarred paper began to fly around his head as Brown ran to the other end of the mill."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"The cloth was used to make the paper at the mill, and a portion of the paper was sent back to Boston to a newspaper company."

Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… often spent time simply reading through the paper for a given year or years to get a "feel" for the time--specifically before and during the Civil…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"Benjamin started the first paper mill on the Souadabscook Stream. John Jr. married the daughter of Simeon Stetson, who represented Hampden on the…"

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"The saw mill would make the logs in different shapes and sizes, so they could sell the logs to citizens who were in need of lumber."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"Within its boundaries were numerous gristmills, paper mills, three silver mines, and a foundry. Farmland dominated the rural area to the village’s…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

"… water cups out of half sheets of arithmetic paper. In 1931, the school got electricity and stove jackets were placed in each room, and in 1940…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… now daily communication with the city and daily papers are received on the day of publication In no other way has the improvement been greater than…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… to handle and have been wholly replaced by the paper sacks which hold five, 10 or 25 pounds.” Croswell Fancy Patent Stencil The Croswell…"