Keywords: Anderson Mill
Item 9084
South Side of River, Skowhegan, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1870 Location: Skowhegan Media: Stereograph
Item 78684
Lumber Mill at the Mill Pond, Somesville, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print
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Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
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Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm
"Fred Anderson, Frederick Peterson, Fred Berquist, Alfred Tall, John Tall, Lars Erick Anderson, and Hedeens."
