Keywords: Liquor Industry
Item 102504
Letter to Woodrow Wilson regarding Prohibition during WWI, Bangor, ca. 1916
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1916 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper
Item 9901
Wantage Rule fitted into a box, 1720
Contributed by: Davistown Museum Date: 1720 Location: Berwick Media: Boxwood, brass, ribbon
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Ice Harvesting
Ice Harvesting was a big industry on the Kennebec River. Several million tons of ice could be harvested in a few weeks. In 1886 the Kennebec River topped the million ton on ice production.
Exhibit
Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - City Marshals
"… drinks or drugs, ten seizures of intoxicating liquors , one assault and battery, four thefts of personal property, one fast driver, one malicious…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Hallowell House
"… which more than compensate for the absence of liquors." In 1925 eight original members of the Worster Family took over the Old Hallowell House…"
Story
Vegetarians and Zoonosis
by Avery Yale Kamila
Colds, influenza, tuberculosis, measles, smallpox, plague and COVID-19 group under zoonotic diseases
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
