Keywords: Twenty Mile Falls
Item 112085
Pejepscot Company Records, Volume 2, 1767-1818
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1767–1818 Location: Brunswick; Durham; Topsham Media: Ink on paper
Item 112091
Pejepscot Company Records, Volume 9, 1797
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1797 Location: Boston Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.
Exhibit
Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador
"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement
"… private tuitioned school was established and twenty-six students worked under teacher Francis Simonds' tutelage."
Site Page
"… Androscoggin, including Amitgonpontekok (Twenty Miles Falls), which divided Pejepscook from Ammoscongon."
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
