Keywords: manufacture of lime
Item 99283
Five Kilns, Rockland, ca. 1875
Contributed by: Rockland Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Rockland Media: Stereograph
Item 100121
Gay's Wharf, Rockland, ca. 1875
Contributed by: Rockland Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Rockland Media: Stereograph
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
Maine Streets: The Postcard View
Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works
"… you exercised the last year in the manufacture of lime in my employ, I am desirous of of your superintendence of my business in that line during…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4
"when he was not consulted in the sale of portions of the Albermarle Paper Company, a portion of Ethyl holdings."
