Keywords: Mill 16
Item 101000
Lumber piling, Scribner's Mill, Harrison, ca. 1940
Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1940 Location: Harrison Media: Photographic print
Item 104179
Laconia Picker House, Biddeford, 2015
Contributed by: Biddeford Mills Museum Date: circa 1845 Location: Biddeford Media: Digital Image
Item 37372
320-322 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Storr David Flour Mills Use: Storage - Flour & Lumber
Item 85868
162-166 Woodford Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Estate of Philip W. Edwards (Land) Use: Office and Mill
Exhibit
Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps
The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.
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
Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Mills and Homes in Stockholm
"… clothes pin mill, bowling pin mill, two lumber mills, cedar mill, shingle mill, and a lath mill (lath are thin strips of wood used as a foundation…"
Site Page
"“All places of business were closed, and the mills shut down. Flags were to be seen everywhere, and the demand for red, white, and blue ribbons…"
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
Story
Alice Bertrand shares highlights from her 100+ years
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
What is it like to live through all the events that have occurred in the past 100+ years?
