Keywords: Multi-national
Item 29248
Workers, Hallowell Granite Works, Franklin Street, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1895 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print
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Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen
"… The work force of Maine's granite industry was multi-national, employing Italian, Scotch, Spanish, Canadian and English stone cutters."
