Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

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

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Niagara One of the world’s only moontide springs Mines that once produced some of the nations’s finest mica The mine that produced the world’s…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… Hill Falls District school closed in 1908, the Mines District in 1895, the Beech Hill district in 1939, the Granite District in 1920, the Witham…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"There were also two mining companies, the Blue Hill Bay Company and the East Surry Company. Despite the town's many businesses however, a worldwide…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Memorial Library 1850 – 1900 1860 • Lead mines established on South Bay in North Lubec and in West Lubec 1861 • 200 Lubec men, 18 to 40, entered…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Lead mines were dug in West Lubec and on South Bay. War and Trade In the midst of prosperity came the outbreak of Civil War and, in 1861, over 200…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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