Keywords: cream top spoon
Item 16573
Hayward Farms Milk Bottle, Houlton, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Houlton Media: Glass
Item 79235
US Peg and Shank Mill, Princeton, 1930
Contributed by: Princeton Public Library Date: 1930 Location: Princeton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town
Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.
Exhibit
Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru
"… at first, then safety matches, ice cream spoons that came with Dixie ice cream cups, ice cream sticks, tongue depressors, candy sticks, coffee…"
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
