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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 1 of 3

"Mt. Zircon Reservoir Text By Jane Welch Peterson, Nghia Ha & Dave Gawtry Images provided by: The Leo Blouin Family and donated to Rumford Area…"

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Historic Hallowell - Logging

"The paper industry relied on the logging industry because they used trees to make paper. Nowadays, logs aren’t shipped down the Kennebec River…"

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Lincoln, Maine - New Tissue Mill, Lincoln, 1964 - Page 1 of 2

"… in 1964 showing the old stock house for storing paper in background. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

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Lincoln, Maine - Eastern Manufacturing Company, Lincoln, ca. 1920 - Page 1 of 2

"… Society Description The Lincoln paper mill was called the Eastern Manufacturing Company in the 1920s."

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Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

"Lincoln sold the papers and Bangor sold them; those towns are still here today. Most of Penobscot County sold the papers and the county is still here…"

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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…"

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… blow in 1968 with the closure of the Eastern Fine Paper and Pulp Division of Standard Packaging Corporation."

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Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"… we still have a mill but it is now a tissue and paper mill instead of a sawmill. This will affect our future as a town because this will give us…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"… now: Tracks became common in Lincoln, due to the paper mill’s business. They are an important part of many mills, as they are less disruptive and…"

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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…"

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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…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 2 of 2

"… the library that had been donated by Eastern Fine Paper Company in 1947. This move proved to be an invaluable step in the preservation of Lincoln’s…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Hotel Willows, Farmington, ca. 1910

"… Description A photographic image on heavy paper was used as early advertising or as a postcard. This shows the Hotel Willows in landscaped…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"“Hey Pa, Mr. Gordon forgot a paper.” “Hmm,” Keith’s Pa picked up the paper and read it. “It says that Mr."

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Lincoln, Maine - Civil War

"Lincoln Center, Me.: B. Goodwin, 1992. Print. Morin, Robert. "Remembering the Civil War". History Term Paper. University of Maine, 2008. Print."

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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…"

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Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"… meetings extended over four years, and their papers were eventually donated to the Hubbard Free Library."

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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."

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Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… partner Clearwater placed advertisements in papers like the New York Times and Chicago Tribune soon created a patent medicine mail-order business…"

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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…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"The paper is relatively quiet about the plans until July 1870. From then on, the paper contains articles about the progress of the railroad bridge…"

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Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines

"News Paper Report At 2:00 PM yesterday morning Hurricane Edna hit Maine. It brought over 6 inches of rain and winds up to 85 MPH."

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Lubec, Maine - A Signature Quilt

"Store it unfolded or preferably rolled in archival paper and box. And revere it as a priceless object of our cumulative past."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"These and other company papers, known as the “Boothby Papers”, are archived at the Scarborough Historical Society.) Haying declined in the 1900s and…"