Keywords: planing mill
Item 9777
Smith's Planing and Shingle Mill, Springvale, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Sanford Media: Photographic print
Item 15876
Planing and Shingle Mill, Springvale, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Sanford Media: Print from glass negative
Item 86139
Mill, Browns Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: F E Irvin Lumber Company Use: Mill - Planing
Item 62361
Mill, Maryland Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Paul Donahue Use: Mill - Planing
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
In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Roger Weatherbee of Lincoln in his P-51 H fighter plane, 1946
"Roger and his P-51 plane has been talked about since that momentous day and now a model of this plane, upside down, hangs in a corner of a room in…"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Fiske Block, Broad Street, Bangor, 1864
"… in and floors fell in enbracing the engine planing mills &c ." View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."
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
Story
Ted Truman (Throumoulos): A treasure trove of stories
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
A son of Greek immigrants’ insight into his entrepreneurial family, culture and life experiences
