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Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"The Nog was a small piece or a block of wood, and the Oker was used to mark red chalk on wood. The Racing Knife marked or shaped a cut of an object."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong

"For a time birch pulp wood was shipped from Maine to him in Boston, but he soon realized that he needed to relocate his operations to a site where…"

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Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"Early Industry and Bombahook Industry develops quickest where raw materials meet easy transportation and ready energy, both human and otherwise."

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"Historically, the cottage industries were common in areas where a large percentage of local population was engaged in seasonal work, because families…"

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Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"A settler could either collect and sell the plain wood ash, or they could blanch it in a large vat, and boil it down to produce pot-ash (potash)."

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Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… around Folsom and Upper Ponds, sending the wood down the streams for transport to the saw mill."

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"… of Atlas Plywood (the town’s major wood products industry) in 1935, signaled the end of “industrial” Stockholm."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"A few years later it was sold to William R. Wood, of Portland, who was proprietor in 1904 and ran the business as The United Packers, with a capacity…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… permanent settlers were John Roundy and Joseph Wood. They settled near the reversing falls and the Salt Pond."

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 8 of 17

"The Saco River Driving Company served as the wood operation and river driving subsidiary of J. G. Deering & Son."

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Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"The Wire Mill Dam, Vaughan Woods, Hallowell, ca. 1910Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"Webb River would prove invaluable to the wood industry sporting many a “log drive” in its heyday. Soon Mr."

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Historic Hallowell - Energy

"They might have cut down more wood if more people were getting wood stoves, and fireplaces. So then there would be less trees."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4

"The wood processing faculties were old and tired, necessitating the building of a new woodroom in 1966."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… at the age of 25, was the manufacturing of wood fiber tableware which was lost to fire. His next was to establish the Umbagog Pulp Company at…"

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Historic Hallowell - Logging

"Wood wasnʼt expensive at all, for it was natural and was in major production, but metal, on the other hand,was hard to find and was not in major…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"… to the early tourism industry in the Maine woods. She was engaged by the Maine Central Railroad to help market the Rangeley Lakes as a popular…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"The Porter family owned and operated wood turning and matchstick mills, built iconic buildings in the downtown area and served the community in the…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 2 of 3

"… has uploaded narratives and artifacts from the wood products industry, history of town schools, groups and organizations, and the story of the…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"… Co-Generation Company, which could burn oil, wood bio-mass, coal, chipped rubber, auto tires, and natural gas as fuel to produce steam at 1250 psi…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… A keen observer walking almost anywhere in the woods of western Maine will notice remnants of the past: stone walls that once enclosed open fields…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"… patented a boring machine, which was used in the wood turning industry. The last thing he patented was a spring-tooth rake."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"… effort despite frightening shortages of manpower, wood, chemicals, and the supplies normally needed in the operation of its mills? It took careful…"

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Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"To construct the mast, they would get large wood and make a long and thick, pole-like object and then put smaller lengths of wood crossing the mast…"