Contributed by Yarmouth Historical Society
Description
These Forest Paper Co. employees in Yarmouth were in charge of the massive boiler room that heated large furnaces dealing with byproducts of soda pulp production.
Dissolved wood components called "black liquor" were boiled down and evaporated until it was the consistency of molasses, then burned at high temperatures until it turned into "black ash" eventually used as landfill in Yarmouth.
About This Item
- Title: Forest Paper Co. boiler room, Yarmouth, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: Third Falls, Yarmouth, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12 cm x 19 cm
- Local Code: 2004.74.1
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Sawmills--Maine--Yarmouth
- Paper industry--Maine--Yarmouth
- Pulp mills--Maine--Yarmouth
- Lumber industry--Maine--Yarmouth
- Forest Paper Company (Yarmouth, Me.)
- Boilers--Maine--Yarmouth
- Employees
Other Keywords
- Black Ash
- boiler
- cart
- Elm Street
- forest
- mills
- paper
- poplar
- pulp
- Royal River
- soda
- soot
- tracks
- trains
- trestles
- wood
For more information about this item, contact:
Yarmouth Historical Society118 East Elm St., PO Box 107, Yarmouth, ME 04096
(207) 846-6259
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