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View of Main Street Ridlonville from Day Hill, 1908

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"Then the Big Flood in 1936 came along and wiped out the Ridlonville Bridge. Many homes and businesses along the Androscoggin were destroyed, some…"

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Mechanics Institute of Rumford, ca. 1911

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"The most notorious flood happened in March, 1936, when the Business Island was flooded; the Morse bridge, the steel Rumford Falls Bridge, the…"

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Construction of B Machine at Oxford Paper Company, Rumford, 1915

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

"… coupled with the major flooding of the rivers in 1936, left the Oxford Paper Co. with little profit."