Keywords: Hydro Room
Item 17146
Nurses in a Hydro Room, Bangor, 1927
Contributed by: Eastern Maine Medical Center Date: 1927 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
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One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC
In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.
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In 1893, F.C. Whitehouse of Topsham, who owned paper mills in Topsham and Lisbon Falls, began construction of a third mill on the eastern banks of the Androscoggin River five miles north of Topsham. First, he had to build a dam to harness the river's power.
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Rumford Area Historical Society
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