Keywords: waste management
Item 103862
The Scow Vixen loaded with waste for disposal near Ram Island, Portland, 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1925-07-27 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Item 148239
Scow off breakwater, South Portland, 1887
Contributed by: City of Portland - Planning & Development Date: 1887-09-01 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.
Exhibit
The paper mill on the Penobscot River in South Brewer, which became known as Eastern Fine Paper Co., began as a sawmill in 1884 and grew over the years as an important part of the economy of the region and a large presence in the landscape. Its closing in 2005 affected more than the men and women who lost their jobs.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson
"… could put into storage nothing that would mold or waste. It tried crackers and ugh things of that nature and so we took some of the food off of the…"
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4
"… agreement was that Ethyl had to complete the waste water treatment in accordance with federal laws or allow funding for its completion."
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
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
