Keywords: mill machinery
Item 16375
Farnsworth Mill machinery, Lisbon, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Lisbon Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Lisbon Falls Media: Photographic print
Item 17301
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1814 Location: Houlton Media: Stone
Exhibit
Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
Exhibit
The gunpowder mills at Gambo Falls in Windham and Gorham produced about a quarter of the gunpowder used by Union forces during the Civil War. The complex contained as many as 50 buildings.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill
"The Cotton Mill closed and had to sell all of its machinery in 1890 and was replaced by the shoe industry."
Site Page
Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3
"… Water Power Company as well, the real estate and machinery arm of the venture. These men & their companies would start and operate the Laconia and…"
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
