Maine Memory Network

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

"Chisholm became reality with canals being dug and dams being built to harness the water power. The waters were diverted to canals to service the…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"… Moores cut ice on Cascade Pond, above the first dam on Vaughan Brook. Cascade Pond - Vaughan HomesteadHubbard Free Library Once there was…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"This was a good dam, lumber mill, grist mill, clover and starch factory. Later a school house was built."

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"… ice, logs flowed down the river and created a dam, causing the water to back up. When the water overflowed onto the banks, the Great Bangor Flood…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"… of 1825, he and a group of other men built a dam. In the winter of 1825-26, Ira and his crew put 5,000,000 feet of pine logs in the water."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"… level of Day Mountain Pond to a point below the dam, the town had to install a suction pump to keep water supplied to the town."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

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

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… who proposed building a high level canal with dams and locks instead of a sea level one like the French were trying to do."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… Historical Society In 1824, the first dam across the Piscataquis River in Guilford was erected, and another sawmill built alongside it on the…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"… section kept on going and went down over the dam in Dover-Foxcroft. In 1858, the townspeople of Guilford decided to contract Isaac F."

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… valley known as Eastern River until 1830 when dams were built to operate saw mills . Still, despite economic travails and some neighborhood…"

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

"SEE NOTE Dam Construction at Rumford Falls, ca 1895Greater Rumford Area Historical Society A study was conducted in 1985, prompted by the high price…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"The mill was powered by water from the dam across the Presque Isle Stream. Shingles, clapboards, and laths were shipped to the Boston market while…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… 1919 • Passamaquoddy Tidal Project proposed – two dams built in Eastport, one partially constructed in Lubec."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"… now the corner of the Bog Road and the Long Falls Dam Road. The next was directly across the street beside the Kimball Block (Kennison's Drugstore)."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"His dam was Braden Girl. Early lessons given to John R Braden did not indicate that he had the ability to become a great race horse."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… Falls consisted of a number of mills and a dam to provide water power for those mills; there were equally as many mills and homes surrounding the…"