Keywords: Pejepscot Village
Item 12238
Pejepscot Village General Store, Topsham, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1900 Location: Topsham Media: Photograph, print
Item 10604
Pejepscot Paper Company, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Topsham Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
In 1893, F.C. Whitehouse of Topsham, who owned paper mills in Topsham and Lisbon Falls, began construction of a third mill on the eastern banks of the Androscoggin River five miles north of Topsham. First, he had to build a dam to harness the river's power.
Exhibit
Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.
Site Page
"… understand that the settlers referred to as the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors shaped not only what becomes the State of Maine in 1820, but…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4
"… lying around the Androscoggin River listed in the Pejepscot Claim. This tribe was friendlier with the English, so historians speculated that he…"
