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Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"One of the most successful factories was called the Johnson Brothers Shoe Factory. Though it was a very productive factory, all good things come to a…"

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Schools

"1900Hubbard Free Library Young factory workers (like people who worked at the local Hallowell cotton mills and shoe factories) had to attend school…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… attracted other industries such as oilcloth factories, iron works, shoe factories, a sandpaper mill and The Heart Cure Co., a large mail order…"

Historic Hallowell - The Johnson Shoe Bros.

"The Johnson Shoe Bros. The Jarnes-Hamburger Factory closed down, Twin Johnson Brothers soon found, A building made from wood with a brick…"

Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"This factory continued working for about ten years and then was taken over by a man named Benjamin Tenney."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"Fish factory workers, Swan's Island, ca. 1890Swan's Island Historical Society By the early 1900s there were six or more fish factories mostly on the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Salmon industry

"Fish factory worker, Marion Stinson, Swan's Island, ca. 1990Swan's Island Historical Society The business employed seven or eight islanders full…"

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

"Logs could be floated, and steam-driven factories were set up along the river banks. After 1900, when the first permanent bridge across the stream in…"

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

"A butter factory, Carrabassett Creamery, was organized as a stock company in Nov.1899. The factory was built near the bridge crossing Gilman Stream."

Historic Hallowell - Child Labor

"A child that works in a factory might work eight to twelve hours for a day, six days a week, to earn one dollar."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870

"… In 1871 Edward O’Brien established a shoe factory in the Carr O’Brien Block at the Upper Corner to boost the flagging economy."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"In 1902 the company had 150 workers working with a daily output of fifty thousand shingles and fifteen thousand different types of lumber a day."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Each factory would sound its own distinctive whistle to alert workers that there were fish to be processed. Sardine packers, Lubec, ca."

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

"Some of the lobster canning factories were converted to can clams instead. In 1895 H.W. Joyce built a sardine factory for the herring that were…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"Workers rushed to the factory whenever the whistle blew. The conditions were dismal. As one writer described them, "The windows were jammed with…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"American Can with its factory on that newer waterfront street had brought change to the canning industry."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"A pavilion for movies and dances, a starch factory, doctors’ offices, a rake factory, a hotel, and many other businesses came and went."

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

"… conversion of the grist mill to a gold extraction factory. A “machine room” and a “laboratory” were constructed."

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

"… a sawmill, grist mill, salt box factory, starch factory, wagon shop, novelty mill, carding factory, dye house, fulling mill, clover mill, and…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… bank, churches of several denominations, various factories including a furniture factory, livery stables, hardware stores, blacksmith shops…"

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

"… including a gristmill, saw mills and even a clam factory, which existed briefly during the 1950's F.S."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"The 1850 Maine Register lists five pogey factories for rendering fish oil in town. Toward the end of the nineteenth century the in-shore fisheries…"

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

"… were sawmills, the first built in 1803, salt factories, shoe factories, carding mills, blacksmith shops, and ice houses."