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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"He already had a wide knowledge of the industry. Now, as President of Oxford, he was determined that the company would continue to be one of the…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"Farmington, Industry and New Vineyard can boast many families with the Norton name; each town benefiting from the industrious nature of the families’…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"… builder and a businessman in the Corn Canning Industry. All of the boys in the family had that same tendency to the creative and the mechanical."

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Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"… When it became apparent that the effects of industrialization included the separation of families, causing poverty and homelessness for young…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"Despite the decrease in industry and communication and the confusion of post-war life, the island made the shift to modern utilities and once again…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"After the close of other island industries, lobster fishing remains predominant. A successful trap limit was enforced in 1984 that reduced the…"

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Historic Hallowell - The Boston Flint Company

"… Sandpaper Mill was one of Hallowell's important industries. Working in the sandpaper mill was very dangerous."

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History Bibliography

"12, 1863) “Industrial School for Girls-National Historic District Hallowell, Me.” Registration Form. Washington, D.C.:U.S."

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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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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"… herring for markets away had been a leading industry with many ups and downs. It was a traditional process carried out in traditional buildings…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… father's farm, but as a young adult he began his industrious activities. He moved to Carthage to make bricks at $11.50 a month."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"Our ancestors were industrious with true American entrepreneurial spirit! Apples were viewed as the crop that would allow East Dixfield farmers to…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… and pulp, as well as hemlock for the tanning industry. In the late 19th century, as paper mills, textile mills, and shoe factories proliferated…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… 17th century when guilds began to fade away, and industry made people less connected, some wished to preserve the groups that supported its members."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"… imposing name, "Dixfield Universalist Circle of Industry”—later called the Ladies’ Aid Society. The fine tone of the bell is accounted for by the…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"… Farmington Early Settlement Sites Farmington Industrial Sites Farmington Historic School Districts Farmington Mill Sites Farmington Tanneries…"

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Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"… public utilities, forestry, private property, and industries and the damage amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars."

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Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"The Cotton Mill closed and had to sell all of its machinery in 1890 and was replaced by the shoe industry."

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Historic Hallowell - Energy

"… Cascade, Hallowell, 1871Hubbard Free Library Industrial Revolution - Hallowell Energy In the Mid/Late 1800’s In the mid and late 1800’s, the basic…"

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Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… Moore, Harbor Master  Shipbuilding was a huge industry in Hallowell in the late 1800s. They would build ships on the Kennebec River and then send…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… D., “Some Historical Data on the Maine Sardine Industry”, Maine Sardine Industry History. Varney, George A., A Gazetteer of the State of Maine…"

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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"Lubec sardine industry, ca. 1950Maine Historical Society The industry began in Eastport in the 1870s, came over to Lubec and grew phenomenally in…"

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Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"This company was Hallowell’s only remaining industry in 1961. In 1962, the Hallowell Shoe Company became a subsidiary of Desco Company in New York."

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Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… Society/MaineToday Media Whaling was not a big industry in Hallowell, or in Maine for that matter."