Maine Memory Network

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…"

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…"

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."

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."

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…"

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…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

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

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…"

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…"

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…"

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…"

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…"

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…"

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."

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."

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…"

Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

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

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."

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…"

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…"

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…"

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."

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."

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…"