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Historic Hallowell - Cotton Mill & Johnson Shoe Citations

"23, 2011) Johnson Shoe Factory, Hallowell, 1900. n.d. n.d. < http:/www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=29429>. Maine Memory Network. n.d."

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"In the 1960's, there were just white and tan shoes manufactured. See the difference between technology in the past and today? Johnson Brothers…"

Historic Hallowell - More About the Johnson Brothers

"The shoe business grew so rapidly in Hallowell  that its shoes were being shipped across the country."

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… such as oilcloth factories, iron works, shoe factories, a sandpaper mill and The Heart Cure Co., a large mail order patent-medicine concern."

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"Later it produced wooden lasts for the shoe factories. Boston Flint Company sandpaper mill beside Vaughan Brook.Courtesy of Sumner A."

Historic Hallowell - The Fuller Foundry

"… owner was George Fuller who also owned Machinists Manufacturers. It was a large part of Hallowell's history because everyone relied on it for their…"

Historic Hallowell - Thomas Bond House

"Page. Charles A. Page was a manufacturer/dealer of saddle, harnesses, and trunks. His place of business was on Water Street and his residence is…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Iron Foundry

"The Hallowell Iron works manufactured brass castings, shafting, hangers, and pulleys. Orders are always on time and steam and gas fittings are always…"

Historic Hallowell - Johnny Stringer ~ A Character of Industry

"… his living by making and rebottoming chairs, and manufacturing clothespins for the housekeepers of the town."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"A boot and shoe factory, a brick mill, a sawmill and a clothespin factory opened, and other businesses that followed also flourished because people…"

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

"… product for the relief of heart trouble which he manufactured under the name of The Heart Cure Company. All Humbug, Dr."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Carr O'Brien Block

"… as a bank, commercial shops, sail loft, boot and shoe factory, clothing factory, and now houses the Prison Showroom, a retail outlet for products…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"Later the shoe shop manufactured a well known riveted moccasin that only they had the right to manufacture in the United States."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Manufacturing remained the base of economic growth in Skowhegan up until the 1970’s. Today, the mills no longer operate on the island leaving only…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"& B.F. Bartlett Saw Mill G. Cross Boot & Shoe Maker S.H. Webb “ “ “ “ D.S. Bennett Blacksmith Samuel F."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… stores, a movie theater, bowling alley, shoe stores and other retailers providing goods and services to those earning incomes from the factories…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… by 1810, and there was a wheelwright shop, a shoe shop, a blacksmith shop, a schoolhouse, and eleven homes. West vs."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… met with initial success, and the boot and shoe industry continued to be viable for many more years."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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