Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Stimpson House

"… was lived in by Brown Stimpson, a druggist and mining expert. The original ceilings were reported to be 12’ downstairs and 9’ upstairs."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 2 of 17

"… built ships, fished, and processed fish; mined and cut granite and slate; cut and shipped ice, as well as farmed the state's rocky soils."

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 3 of 3

"… 150 workers were employed at a mine called the Brown & McAllister Mine which was in operation from 1890 to 1898."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… go: spruce gum, several lumber mills, farming, mining of phosphate, and even gold mining, which continues today."

Byron Historical Society

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Monson Historical Society

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"In early 1880 there were 29 mining companies in Blue Hill. By the end of that summer 10 remained. Some ran out of capital."

Sullivan and Sorrento Historical Society

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… numerous gristmills, paper mills, three silver mines, and a foundry. Farmland dominated the rural area to the village’s west."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Niagara One of the world’s only moontide springs Mines that once produced some of the nations’s finest mica The mine that produced the world’s…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"Slate, a rock formed from shale and mined by quarrying, had low heat and not very much pressure put on it."

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"John and his business partners bought two mining companies along Poor Man’s Creek. He hoped to make enough money to buy a farm before he went home."

Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"I could get mine there. Another thing is, you can get a passport there and you can also register your vehicle and many other things."

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

"… peaked at just over 2200 during the 19th Century mining boom, entered a period of slow decline during the first half of the 20th Century and…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"There were also two mining companies, the Blue Hill Bay Company and the East Surry Company. Despite the town's many businesses however, a worldwide…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Perkins, V.C. A Mining Boom in Maine: Blue Hill, 1876-1883, Reprinted from an issue in New England Quarterly. Porter Joseph W."

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"Some of these included granite mined in East Blue Hill, lumber, ice from local ponds that was shipped in sawdust to keep from melting, and fish."

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… dumps would frequently result in a gold mine find of old metal, bottles, cans and rubber tires."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"X Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Never Touch Mine Postcard, early 20th century Courtesy of the Charles E."

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"… United States and Canada where she met Canadian mine operator Bruce White, who became her husband in 1898."

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"… Queen Susie (Knight) Calder was born on Lead Mine Road, the oldest girl in a family of 12 children."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Memorial Library 1850 – 1900 1860 • Lead mines established on South Bay in North Lubec and in West Lubec 1861 • 200 Lubec men, 18 to 40, entered…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"He also invested $1,000 in a copper mine. It turned out that it was too expensive to mine and he lost that investment as well."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"Students in front of the Mines school, Blue Hill, 1905Blue Hill Historical Society Schoolhouses There are no records of when the first school was…"