Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"The woodworking shop milled lumber and produced cut lumber and moldings for carpenters and cabinetmakers, and also produced wood-block patterns for…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"… ride the ferry, there was a long cable across the river so the ferry could not float down the river and so the operator could pull them across in…"

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."

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"Though steamboats now and then were both used to carry goods and people across rivers and lakes they are not used as widely as they once were due to…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"Some were powered by dams like the Wire Mill Dam. The dams worked like this. First, the water behind the dam flew through a pipe connected to a…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"These rivers provided the opportunities for small mills to produce lumber and shingles, shovel handles, grains from the grist mills, cheese and…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… a road to the Swift River along the Androscoggin River was built and called Rumford Road, now River Road."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"The rivers were the main way of getting the logs to the mills at that time. The piers were built on the river ice during the winter months (January…"

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

"… supplies normally needed in the operation of its mills? It took careful planning and considerable ingenuity to keep the Oxford mills operating."

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"… granite was worked to produce foundation stones, mill stones and door sills. Cornice stones for Boston's Quincy Market, for example, were produced…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… to build the first grist mill, the first saw mills and develop the water power that flows out of Lake Webb, down Webb River, and enters at its…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 1 of 2

"… and around the Falls, his plans for dams, canal, mills, a power company, and a water district could not be finalized."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"In the late 19th century, as paper mills, textile mills, and shoe factories proliferated along the Androscoggin, additional waves of immigrants, in…"

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."

Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"… was a small hill not far from the Penobscot River, called Ballard Hill. The townspeople did most of the work themselves."

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"Moor. Mr. Moor died in the Mattawamkeag River trying to cross the river to give the north part of Mattawamkaeg its mail."

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office, Lincoln, Built in 1856

"Plumly was interested in lumbering and owned the mills at Cold Stream (Hubbard's Mills). He was a Justice of the Peace, a Selectman, the Deputy…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"In the River Valley towns, the NewPage paper mill dominates the economy. While the mill’s payroll is less than half of what it was 40 years ago, it…"

Lincoln, Maine - Logging truck, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"… come across the frozen lake from the woods to the mill in the winter. The driver is Art Morgan and the helper by the back is Frank Sigue."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2

"Individual donations to the Library; to mill workers at Christmas, and park maintenance were also attributed to him."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… come and go: spruce gum, several lumber mills, farming, mining of phosphate, and even gold mining, which continues today."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"… of his sons) went to Enfield and drowned in the river. He made his way north in 1824 with all of his family, where on the Winn borderline he built…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"… existing in 1895 included Rumford Corner, Abbotts Mills, North Rumford, East Side Ellis River, No. 9 East Rumford, No. 12 Red Hill, and No."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 5 of 17

"Once these two mills were established this mill district came to be one of the largest cotton milling facilities in the country."