Keywords: Mining tools
Item 78766
Aerial view of slate quarry, Monson, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Monson Media: Photographic print
Item 100535
David James to Moses Greenleaf on slate, New York, 1834
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1834 Location: Greenport Media: Ink on paper
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Maine's natural resources -- granite, limestone and slate in particular -- along with its excellent ports made it a leader in mining and production of the valuable building materials. Stone work also attracted numerous skilled immigrants.
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Great Cranberry Island's Preble House
The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History
"… Niagara One of the world’s only moontide springs Mines that once produced some of the nations’s finest mica The mine that produced the world’s…"
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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
