Keywords: old south channel covered bridge
Item 36014
South Channel dam undergoing repairs, Skowhegan, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1900 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
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Student Exhibit: Historic Buildings on Madison Ave in Skowhegan
Take a tour and see some of the beautiful old buildings that used to be on Madison Avenue, Skowhegan? A few still remain, but most have been torn down.
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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.
Site Page
"The Lubec Channel Light was commissioned in 1890. Shipwrecks led to the construction of a lifesaving station at Carrying Place Cove in 1874."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village
"… ice-breakers are being constructed in the channel of the river a few rods above the bridge, which will smash the ice-cakes into such small…"
