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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's First Grist Mill

"… first crops of wheat and corn to be milled into flour, which greatly increased the kinds of food the settlers ate, as well as allowed them to store…"

Historic Hallowell - News Article by Emily Markham

"That was a big devastation to all, especially people who have bought flour from Leigh and Wingate in the past."

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… from the open Atlantic, bringing Pennsylvania flour, West India sugar, and English cloth and hardware, returning with shingles, clapboards…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865

"… page 106, he drew the illustration of a corn and flour elevator with all available space packed with spectators watching to race."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Stores

"… a favorite of islanders, meat and produce, flour, candy, and household goods. It was a long day for a store owner who kept the doors open all day…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Farming

"… grown by the homesteaders could be ground into flour. With the mill as an additional resource, the homesteaders were able to be a self-sustaining…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"The Flat Bag Department made bags for flour, groceries, clothing, confectioneries, and bread in more than 35 different sizes and more than 20 brands."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… their own fish and sea mammals, but lard and flour usually came from the annual distribution of annuity goods which the state provided as part of…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"They bought flour by the carload too. It is written that in the early 1890’s, “one car Royal Gem, one car Taylor’s Fancy Patent, just received direct…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… staves and cordwood, returning with cargoes of flour, bolts of cloth and manufactured goods. Profitable trading necessitated the shipbuilding…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… Kimball’s story sold hardware, dry goods, flour, marine supplies and sundries. Between 1880 and 1910, Northeast Harbor grew to resemble the village…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"Many citizens had to go without food that consist of flour for a long while. Devastations went all over Kennebec County."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… more than they could eat, they traded it for flour, sugar, soap, molasses, and oil. They eventually shipped fish to markets in Boston and New York…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… was fierce and the widespread smuggling of flour, salt beef, and other goods into British territory became increasingly difficult to combat."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"The flour and water cracker was often dunked in coffee or fried with bacon to make it more palatable."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"store. Shoppers could buy a barrel of flour for the price of a cord of wood. They also sold large dried codfish, which customers would take home to…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… products of every description: lumber, paper, flour, leather, shoes, toothpicks, bowling pins, clothespins, shingles, barrels, tool handles."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… all manner of necessities and delicacies, from flour, candy and gasoline to the "rat cheese" much favored on the island."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… while inbound freight was fertilizer, grain, and flour. The railroad often stored the freight in the winter."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… and corn were planted later to be turned into flour, food crops were planted, as well as oats for livestock."

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