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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

""Fly Rod" Crosby Text By: Ben Godsoe Return to Online Exhibits Cornelia "Fly Rod" Crosby (1854-1946)Maine State Museum Cornelia “Fly Rod”…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"Strong's History Through Sleet, Snow, and Hail..... Communication evolved as populations grew in Franklin County towns."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"Grand Army of the Republic Text By: Strong School 7th and 8th Graders, 2011-2012 Return to Student Research G.A.R."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About MCHP

"About MCHP X About the Maine Community Heritage Project... The Maine Community Heritage Project (MCHP), a partnership between Maine…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Online Exhibits

"Online Exhibits Our MCHP Team has put together the following exhibits. We hope that you enjoy exploring them as much as we have enjoyed working on…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"And he was the owner of a saw mill near his home. For further information on Alexander, see the Mill Section."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5

"… of the century Guilford had the railroad, woolen mills, a newspaper, and even a cinema. What the town needed was a library."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"You would insulate it with sawdust from the mills. That would go on until the ice house was full. Weston's Ox TeamHubbard Free Library…"

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"Once they moved out, the abandoned building was torn down in May, 1955, and a skating rink took its place. Cotton Mill and Johnson Shoes Citations"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… 1776-1885, Francis Gould Butler) Walton Mills and Walton Pond, Farmington, ca. 1930Farmington Historical Society On their arrival the early…"

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

"… lids for boxes, as they came from a local “box mill.” On the bench is a jig with box ends and sides shown in assembly with nails and hammer."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… and we may next week have two more from the mills. But we should want six or seven more. It is my anxious desire to have cut and hauled out of the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"… Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Gaines Mill, White Oak Swamp, and Malvern Hill before the next surviving letter."

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"Sawmill at Mill Stream, Blue Hill, ca. 1910Blue Hill Historical Society The shipyards were mostly located around the inner harbor, at Conary Cove…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… from dangling a summer kid by his feet off the Mill Stream bridge because he would not give way to others on a sidewalk in the center of town."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… College, principal owner of Maine’s first cotton mill in Brunswick, and a founder and president of Bath’s first bank."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"… on the north side of Blue Point near the mouth of Mill Creek. Jane’s fireplace with its blackened hearthstone could be seen for many years until it…"

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Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"… later, his friend Manola Gilman of Cumberland Mills noted “you boys are about as safe in France now tho [sic] as the people are around here."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"… X Which Shall it Be: The Work of The Mill or the Still? W.T.P.A., 1887 Chromolithograph Courtesy of John Matzke X The Little Water…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Quenching the Thirst

"… told him about, or rather hinted about, a gin-mill in nearby Robinhood, "I must say, regarding the thirst, that it arose entirely from my ignorance…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"Timber was becoming scarce and many mills had to close down. The Great Depression got everyone into trouble. The plentiful jobs went to no jobs."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"… Library Flood, Joppa viewed from Cotton Mill, Hallowell, 1936Hubbard Free Library The river also was getting its spring flow of water which…"