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Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 1 of 2

"… above and around the Falls, his plans for dams, canal, mills, a power company, and a water district could not be finalized."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"Stevens took over the Canal project from John F. Wallace in 1905, Wallace had resigned the position mainly because of a fear of yellow fever, which…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… to place it at $100,000,000.” Plant #2 at Canal Electrolytic Marine Salts Company Plant #2 under construction at the canal, former site of…"

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

"The waters were diverted to canals to service the paper making facilities along the canal banks. Railroad service was also extended by Hugh J."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - People

"… UMF graduate who was chief engineer of the Panama Canal Daniel Stewart 1786-1827: Joiner, cabinet maker, and furniture maker Educators, Authors…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2

"… business district to be constructed between the canal and the Androscoggin River. He generously contributed lands for various churches to be built…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"This channel, or canal, became known as the New River. The Dunstan shipyard was at the end of the man-made canal."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"… to be ready to have water let into the Middle Canal on Wednesday Dec. 28th which calls for active operations all around."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"… several local projects – logging, lime burning, canals, ship building and brick making all over what was then Lincoln County."

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"… Trust Company Bank in South Portland (1928), the Canal Bank in Portland (1930), and the Fidelity Trust Company Bank in Brunswick (1931)."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… of investors chartered the Bangor and Piscataquis Canal Rail Road Company with the State. In 1835 construction began again and on November 20, 1836…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… say Plymouth Company matters, tontine buildings, canals, land speculations, navigation, agricultural societies, India trade, turnpikes, physics…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… Ireland, England, came to build the dams, canals, brick structures, and other buildings on the Island, and manage the mills."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"… practices were held in the Rumford Band Room on Canal Street but later moved to the Howard Hall building in Mexico to practice marching."

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

"… by installing two new penstocks from the middle canal to turbine generators located on river bed basin 80 feet below."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… 20 feet in Lubec and with suitable arrangement of canals and reservoirs furnishes the most reliable, consistent and cheapest kind of water power.”…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… 1832 • Plaster mills erected at North Lubec Canal. Jeremiah Fowler employed 125 men. Operated by tidal power; later by steam 1850 • Census –…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The Bangor and Piscataquis Canal and Railroad Company operated twelve miles of track between Bangor and Old Town beginning in 1836."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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