Keywords: Nationwide Market
Item 98622
Nash's Nationwide Market, upper Weld Street, Dixfield, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Dixfield Media: Photographic print
Item 66988
Box of World's Fair clothespins, Strong, 1947
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1947 Location: Strong Media: Wood product in cardboard box
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Maine's frozen rivers and lakes provided an economic opportunity. The state shipped thousands of tons of ice to ports along the East Coast and to the West Indies that workers had cut and packed in sawdust for shipment or later use.
Exhibit
Throughout the history of the state, residents have protested, on paper or in the streets, to increase rights for various groups, to effect social change, to prevent social change, or to let their feelings be known about important issues.
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"… building of schooners carried Bath through the nationwide depression and into relative prosperity in the 1880s and 1890s."
