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Description
The Portland Company was incorporated in 1846 and is still in operation on Portland, Maine's waterfront. As the need arose, the Portland Company adjusted its production from steam locomotives to steamship engines to paper company equipment to present day atomic energy plants. This factory in Lewiston, Maine was built with the Portland Company's assistance.The purpose of the Lewiston facility was to manufacture, cleanse and pipe coal gas throughout Lewiston for street lighting and cooking. Only the 1908 Meter House remains. Now owned by Northeast Utilities.
About This Item
- Title: Lewiston Gas Light Company, ca. 1880
- Creation Date: circa 1880
- Subject Date: circa 1880
- Location: Lewiston, Androscoggin County, ME
- Media: Albumen print
- Dimensions: 25 cm x 21 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 37 #82
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Steel Industry--Maine--Portland
- Lewiston Gas Light Company (Me.)
- Portland Company (Me.)
- Power Plants
- Public utilities--Maine--Lewiston
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