Keywords: Gristmills
Item 22409
Gristmill and Cataract Falls, Saco, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Saco Media: Glass negative
Item 105888
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Whitefield Media: Glass Plate Negative
Exhibit
Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye
The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.
Exhibit
Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town
Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.
Site Page
Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street
"Within its boundaries were numerous gristmills, paper mills, three silver mines, and a foundry. Farmland dominated the rural area to the village’s…"
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Memorial Library
"Ingersoll in 1923. Ira Fish's gristmill used to be where the library is today. It is located at 11 West Broadway, Lincoln, Maine."
