Keywords: Bankrupt
Item 101441
Order to stop selling insurance, Bangor, 1872
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Date: 1872-11-12 Location: Bangor; Boston Media: Ink on paper
Item 34500
New Haskell Silk Mill, Westbrook, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Location: Westbrook Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The gunpowder mills at Gambo Falls in Windham and Gorham produced about a quarter of the gunpowder used by Union forces during the Civil War. The complex contained as many as 50 buildings.
Exhibit
Black soldiers served in Maine during World War II, assigned in small numbers throughout the state to guard Grand Trunk rail lines from a possible German attack. The soldiers, who lived in railroad cars near their posts often interacted with local residents.
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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms
"Gordon went bankrupt in 1936, never to be open again under the Gordon name. Jeannette King Interview on Fox Farms Scott Sibley “Create a ‘why’…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad
"… gauge rail system that was laid, came from a bankrupt railroad between Bedford and Billerica, MA."
