Keywords: spool mills
Item 27516
Spool Mill and Williams Mill Stereoptic Card, Farmington, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Farmington Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Farmington Media: Stereograph
Item 23527
Spinning room in Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Silk Manufacturing in Westbrook
Cultivation of silkworms and manufacture of silk thread was touted as a new agricultural boon for Maine in the early 19th century. However, only small-scale silk production followed. In 1874, the Haskell Silk Co. of Westbrook changed that, importing raw silk, and producing silk machine twist threat, then fabrics, until its demise in 1930.
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Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill
"… the Macgregor Spool Mills were the largest spool mill company in all of New England. Various items from the MacGregor collection at the Lincoln…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5
"Stowell and his three spool factories in Dixfield and a half-dozen or more in surrounding towns. Dixfield attracted the best talent in the legal…"
