Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… bleached Kraft mill on the site of the current mill; and, in 1958, the mill switched from manufacturing sulphite pulp to Kraft pulp (a more…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"Hussey's Woolen Mill, Guilford, ca. 1920Guilford Historical Society In 1917, Herbert Gray of Old Town Woolen Company purchased the south side mill…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Huntress

"… of the important things that happened like the mill or the train wouldn’t have been here and that would have stopped all of the other towns that…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… Company Following a variety of small, one man saw mills, one of the first manufacturers utilizing forest products on a large scale was Guilford…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 3 of 3

"Drapers Mill & Edes Building, Guilford, ca. 1940Guilford Historical Society Drapers Mill, Guilford, late 1940sGuilford Historical Society He…"

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"Once, when a house caught fire in Lincoln, the train was used to transport a fire truck. The building burned, but the people were amazed at the speed…"

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"A grist mill and feed store changed hands from M. L. Hussey to Frank Palmer. S. J. Jackson Company set up a Men’s Haberdashery."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"After the building burned down, construction began. The dedication of the brick building was held in 1904."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… harnessed for power to run saw mills, shingle mills, grist mills, or anything else that needed more power than could be supplied by men or animals."

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

"… Society Stockholm, looking South from mill, ca. 1915Stockholm Historical Society The Bangor and Aroostook, or B&A, had train stations in New…"

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

"The Mills and Lumber Compnay of Stockholm Mills, Stockholm, ca. 1900Stockholm Historical Society In 1900 though 1901 a dam was created to be…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s

"… section, a cluster of buildings centered on Mill Creek, where it passes under the County Road (now Route One.) A town landing was established on…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 1 of 2

"At the time, Gertrude Mills was the secretary and Addie Pinkham was the Treasurer. Some of the charter members are as follows: Sadie Adams, Mary…"

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"… which is on the Penobscot River, near where the mill is today. Their house burned to the ground in 1926, so the family proceeded to move to the…"

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"The Cotton Mill sold the machinery to a mill in Georgia. In 1903, the Cotton Mill was sold to Kennebec Realty Company."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding

"… section, a cluster of buildings centered on Mill Creek, where it passes under the County Road (now Route One.) A town landing was established on…"

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 2 of 3

"… by this flood; homes were filled with debris, mills and machinery were ruined. River Street Flood, Guilford, 1923Guilford Historical Society…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The John Ruggles House

"… Honorable John O’Brien, who owned the marble manufactory at Mill River, and they built the house to the west in a similar federal hip-roof style."

Lincoln, Maine - Eastern Manufacturing Company, Lincoln, ca. 1920 - Page 1 of 2

"… Society Description The Lincoln paper mill was called the Eastern Manufacturing Company in the 1920s."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… dinners and Samuel Boardman and the men from his mill set up tables in the sheds by the railroad and served beanhole beans."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825

"He is one of Thomaston’s earliest shipbuilders, credited with building at least two ships. General Henry Knox built coasters as early as 1796…"

Lincoln, Maine - High Street Bridge, Lincoln, ca. 1903

"The large white building on the right is the Plumly Building, home of the Post Office in Lincoln. The home in the center belonged to Ira Fish."

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"They were not in sterile buildings, but in buildings that were hard to clean and did not have appropriate antibacterial cleaning supplies."

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"The mills dried themselves off and were going full tilt once again, a $20 million state-of-the-art yarn manufacturing facility was planned by…"