Keywords: Bates Manufacturing
Item 82187
New looms arriving at the Hill Mill, Lewiston, October 1961
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1961 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print
Item 35392
Biddeford and Saco mills and river from the Main Street Bridge, 1912
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1912 Location: Biddeford; Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 150395
Plan of Tenement Houses for C.I. Barker and Bates Manufacturing Co., ca. 1888
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1888 Client: C. I. Barker Architect: George M. Coombs
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From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
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Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3
"… William I Smith, Jesse E Phillips, William E Bates, Walter G Durrell. Second Row: Charles F Thompson, Philip D Stubbs, Nelson Walker, Percy M…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family
"He went to Strong schools and to Bates College (called the Maine State Seminary until 1863) from 1862–1863."
