Keywords: Great Falls
Item 9691
Great Falls of the Androscoggin River, Lewiston, ca. 1975
Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1975 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency
Item 16351
Main Street of Lisbon Falls Burning, Lisbon Falls, 1901
Contributed by: Lisbon Historical Society Date: 1901-04-06 Location: Lisbon Falls Media: Photographic print
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
Northern Threads: The rise and fall of the gigot sleeve
A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring the balloon-like gigot sleeve of the 1830s.
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block
"Every couple of minutes a new wall would fall and scatter the firefighters. The granite wall, (part of the Granite Block) was there, although it was…"
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay
"Just months before the start of the Great Depression, a group of actors, directors and producers from New York City pulled together a repertory…"
Story
There were years when it was fun to go to work at the paper mill
by Bruce Dyke
My 39 years working for International Paper was a great job for a guy like me.
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
