Maine Memory Network

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"The Gazetteer of Maine, 1882 reported: “The tide power privilege available at North Lubec is equaled by very few on the entire coast."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"Mixer, resident engineer with the Rumford Falls Power Company. The culmination of Chisholm’s awareness of housing needs was the construction of…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"… No Greater Abomination: Ethnicity, Class, and Power Relations on Malaga Island, Maine, 1880-1912, 1991, Masters Thesis, University of Southern…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"… a new saw and grist mill and increased the water power by improving the dam. There was a carding mill operated by Mr."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… hills and steams/The streams that furnished water power/Before days we knew of steam. But the mills that once run buzzing saws/Have now gone to…"

St. Croix Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"And various European powers had squabbled for a century and a half over their competing claims -- including the island."

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

"… novelty mill making good use of available water power. A short distance from the girst mill was a shoe shop owned by John Metcalf."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"He arranged for start-up capital for the power plant at Aroostook Falls and raised $20,000 from the people of Presque Isle to build a railroad…"

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"… the phone line are only really working for the power company because that is how the lines are connected."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… dug and dams being built to harness the water power. The waters were diverted to canals to service the paper making facilities along the canal…"

Colby College Special Collections

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Pejepscot Historical Society

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

"… plant, equipping it with a new water wheel to power the mill. Lester Henderson was influential in business and town government."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… call when Congress declared war on the Central Powers in April 1917. Like the Spanish American war of 1898, Bangor citizens came to the aid of…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"But the dory, following, lost power. The Callahan boat operator slacked off the engine and a worker threw a rope, which became entangled in the…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… station formerly owned by Central Maine Power. One natural resource that has always been, and remains today a major economic force is wood."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… the Sandy River, a source of water, travel and power lured settlers to the region on the heels of the Revolutionary War."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… a sewer system, an electric lighting system powered by a plant with two Edison dynamos, a bank, churches of several denominations, various…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… of a number of mills and a dam to provide water power for those mills; there were equally as many mills and homes surrounding the dam on both the…"

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

"… identified as such when the syndicate was powerful at the beginning of the century. So far, there is just this one from the Canning Co.’s later…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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