Keywords: Quarry miners
Item 108668
Feldspar quarry, Georgetown, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1935 Location: Georgetown Media: Glass Negative
Item 78774
Monson Maine Slate Company, Monson Pond crew, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Monson Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1870 to 1915
"Black started to accumulate mineral properties containing limestone and clay, eventually establishing the New England Portland Cement Co."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4
"In the summer of 1876, William Darling bought up mineral rights adjacent to Second and Third Ponds west of town."
