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Description
As shipbuilding along the Medomak River declined in the late 1880s, new industries developed and provided jobs for residents of Waldoboro.
In 1888 the town invested in the construction of the Waldoboro Shoe Factory on the east bank of the river. The town paid $20,000 of the $32,000 construction cost.
The building was four stories high and contained 30,000 square feet. Water for the factory was piped from a new reservoir created across the road on Dr. Eveleth’s farm. Without electricity, the factory used gasoline engines to power a system of belts and pulleys to make the machinery run.
The factory produced shoes for only a few years and then stood vacant. The building finally sold at a loss to Holub, Dusha Company, which made button machinery parts.
About This Item
- Title: Shoe factory, Waldoboro, ca. 1910
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Creation Date: circa 1910
- Subject Date: circa 1910
- Location: Waldoboro, Lincoln County, ME
- Media: Glass Plate Negative
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.102819
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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- Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- Photographic postcards
- Postcards
- Shoe industry
- Shoe making
- Shoemaking
- Waldoboro (Me.)
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