Keywords: Industrial facilities
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Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 2 of 2
"The Company operates a fully integrated pulp and paper facility with three tissue machines and two paper machines in Lincoln, Maine.”"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries
"The Bolduc Correctional Facility on Route 97 is still an active farm industry for inmates. Prison Corner, Thomaston, ca."
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"… came to be one of the largest cotton milling facilities in the country. Even when cotton manufacturing became scarce, they worked on army tents…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4
"… in the schools is automated and overseen by the facilities director for the school department. Luckily, students are no longer required to play a…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4
"It is now the site of Scarborough Industrial Park. In 1929 Curtis Wright Corporation built a nearby log cabin intended as a barracks for a summer…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4
"… was working on the design of the manufacturing facilities and the layout of the residential town. In 1890, the master dream of Hugh J."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4
"Boise Cascade had thoroughly studied the Rumford facility prior to the purchase. Immediate studies were initiated to determine the best means to…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4
"… clams from diggers, but they developed a cottage industry. Residents were hired to cut clams and paid by the gallon of meat produced."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4
"Lobster fishing was essentially a local industry until the introduction of the lobster “smack” in the early 1800s."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4
"The site is now home to the Scarborough Industrial Park. A second airport, the Port-of-Maine Airport, opened after World War II at a site off…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4
"… also brought tourists to Scarborough and a new industry that created jobs for residents. For a short period of time, Scarborough was part of the…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4
"… jobs to Scarborough, but also spawned the tourism industry. By the 1870s, sixty-five trains a day transported passengers and freight in and out of…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers
"… spent some of her early years in an educational facility in Brunswick. She was, at one time, a preceptress of Farmington Academy."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History
"… largest tourmaline A Olympic class Nordic ski facility The only town in America named Dixfield The birthplace of Edmund Muskie Those crazy Coke and…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3
"… by the GAR in establishing and improving veterans facilities. The organization spent much of its time soliciting funds for monuments and memorials…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture
"… was considered to have excellent shipping facilities via the rail road. W.W. Small, now the home of Uno Mas Restaurant, was a store and mill."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 2 of 3
"… narratives and artifacts from the wood products industry, history of town schools, groups and organizations, and the story of the bridge."
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Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century
"… the town continued to invest in programs and facilities to benefit their citizens, including the athletic field and trail built on the Osgood lot…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3
"… was a woman engaged in the outdoor and tourism industries at a time when it was overwhelmingly dominated by men."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4
"With a decline of industry and jobs, the population supports only a handful of these organizations today."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4
"Around 1880, the town experienced an industrial boom. A boot and shoe factory, a brick mill, a sawmill and a clothespin factory opened, and other…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3
"… the effects of a declining population and lost industry. Strong Historical Society Responsibilities increased with each elevation on the Grange…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3
"… the introduction of the automobile and trucking industry, ridership began to decline. In 1936 the railroad disbanded, ripped up the tracks, sold…"