Keywords: Bates Manufacturing Co.
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 64916
Depot Street, Strong, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Strong 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
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
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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."
