Keywords: mills
Item 100344
Coopers Mills School House, Whitefield, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Whitefield Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Whitefield Media: Postcard
Item 99124
Pepperell Mills weavers, Biddeford, ca. 1925
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1925 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 85336
Mills property, Sunset Avenue, Great Diamond Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Susie G. Mills Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 37372
320-322 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Storr David Flour Mills Use: Storage - Flour & Lumber
Item 150468
Columbia Mills, Lewiston, 1902-1903
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1902–1903 Location: Lewiston Client: Columbia Mills Architect: Coombs and Gibbs Architects
Item 150469
Columbia Mills, Lewiston, 1897-1903
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1897–1903 Location: Lewiston Client: Columbia Mills Architect: Coombs, Gibbs, and Wilkinson Architects
Exhibit
Jay & Livermore Falls, Pioneers in Paper Making
Alvin Record and Hugh J. Chisholm were instrumental in building paper mills in Jay, Livermore, and Livermore Falls. The two industrialists helped make the towns prosperous.
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
A historic mill museum dedicated to creating exhibits that will educate the community and highlight mill history; as a research collection to assist the public in locating information on the mill's buildings, history and employees; and to ensure the story of Biddeford's economic and industrial revolution remains relevant and accessible to diverse audiences.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill
"In 1871, James C. Emerson built a small sawmill on the site of where the spool mill was to be. The sawmill engaged in sawing lumber for various…"
Story
My 41 year career in Maine paper mills
by Mike Luciano
Generations of paper workers, families, immigrants, jobs in the mill, labor strikes, and changes
Story
My career working at Pepperell Mills in the Vellux Division
by David Bishop
My 35 years working in the Vellux blanket division of Pepperell Mills, Biddeford.
