Maine Memory Network

View of Androscoggin River during flood, Lewiston,1896

Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: 1896 Location: Lewiston; Auburn Media: Phototransparency

Survey of lots near Great and Little Androscoggin Rivers, ca. 1800

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Location: Maine Media: Ink on paper

343-345 Cumberland Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Androscoggin Electric Co. Use: Garage & Storage

Androscoggin Mills Store House, Lewiston, 1880-1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1880–1904 Location: Lewiston Client: Androscoggin Mills Architect: George M. Coombs; Stevens and Coombs Architects

Plan for Fireproof Vaults for Androscoggin Co. Court House, Auburn, ca. 1888

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1888 Location: Auburn Client: Androscoggin County Architect: George M. Coombs

The Swinging Bridge: Walking Across the Androscoggin

Built in 1892 to entice workers at the Cabot Manufacturing Corporation in Brunswick to move to newly built housing in Topsham, the Androscoggin Pedestrian "Swinging" Bridge or Le Petit Pont quickly became important to many people traveling between the two communities.

Powering Pejepscot Paper Co.

In 1893, F.C. Whitehouse of Topsham, who owned paper mills in Topsham and Lisbon Falls, began construction of a third mill on the eastern banks of the Androscoggin River five miles north of Topsham. First, he had to build a dam to harness the river's power.

Androscoggin Historical Society

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Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

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My Paper Industry career and setting up a museum
by Sherry Judd

I worked in and around the Paper Industry all my life. Now I run Maine's Paper and Heritage Museum.

I worked for International Paper for 40 years
by Peter Crosson

I was never bored working in instrumentation at International Paper

Longfellow Studies: Longfellow Meets German Radical Poet Ferdinand Freiligrath

Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
During Longfellow's 1842 travels in Germany he made the acquaintance of the politically radical Ferdinand Freiligrath, one of the influential voices calling for social revolution in his country. It is suggested that this association with Freiligrath along with his return visit with Charles Dickens influenced Longfellow's slavery poems. This essay traces Longfellow's interest in the German poet, Freiligrath's development as a radical poetic voice, and Longfellow's subsequent visit with Charles Dickens. Samples of verse and prose are provided to illustrate each writer's social conscience.

Longfellow Studies: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Harriet Beecher Stowe

Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: Social Studies
As a graduate of Bowdoin College and a longtime resident of Brunswick, I have a distinct interest in Longfellow. Yet the history of Brunswick includes other famous writers as well, including Harriet Beecher Stowe. Although they did not reside in Brunswick contemporaneously, and Longfellow was already world-renowned before Stowe began her literary career, did these two notables have any interaction? More particularly, did Longfellow have any opinion of Stowe's work? If so, what was it?