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Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"Johnson Shoe Factory, Hallowell, 1900Hubbard Free Library The Johnson Shoe Factory was a large part of history in Hallowell."

Historic Hallowell - Cotton Mill & Johnson Shoe Citations

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Historic Hallowell - The Johnson Shoe Bros.

"The Johnson Shoe Bros. The Jarnes-Hamburger Factory closed down, Twin Johnson Brothers soon found, A building made from wood with a brick…"

Historic Hallowell - The Cotton Mill & The Johnson Shoe Company

"Explore our links and learn all about Hallowell's industrial era! Johnson Shoe Factory, Hallowell, 1900Hubbard Free Library Hallowell…"

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

"In 1974, the shoe factory closed all together. The cause of the closure was bad quality shoes that could have ruined all of Desco."

Historic Hallowell - More About the Johnson Brothers

"The shoe business grew so rapidly in Hallowell  that its shoes were being shipped across the country."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Schools

"Working in factories was a very popular occupation in the 1800’s. At one point, 306,000 people (which was about 40 percent of the working population…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… such as oilcloth factories, iron works, shoe factories, a sandpaper mill and The Heart Cure Co., a large mail order patent-medicine concern."

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"Later it produced wooden lasts for the shoe factories. Boston Flint Company sandpaper mill beside Vaughan Brook.Courtesy of Sumner A."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History From a 7th Grade Perspective

"… other exhibits including The Cotton Mill, Johnson Shoe Factory as well as some history about the Vaughan Stream. Mr."

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Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"This factory continued working for about ten years and then was taken over by a man named Benjamin Tenney."

Historic Hallowell - Energy

"… In the mid and late 1800’s, the basic energy for factories was steam engines. The steam engines were powered by coal."

Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company

"… glass plate negatives were sent back to the "factory" in Belfast where they were processed, printed and sent back to the general stores for sale at…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"When the stream wasn’t dried up, factories used a series of pipes to generate power. The way this worked was water behind a dam went into a pipe and…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling

"… for themselves to the spot where the old cotton factory now stands in Hallowell. No hearth fire burned for their welcome; no door opened at their…"

Historic Hallowell - Our Work and Our Team

"… City Hall, started business, worked in schools, factories and farms. Organizations like the Row House, that works to preserve Hallowell’s…"

Historic Hallowell - Child Labor

"A child that works in a factory might work eight to twelve hours for a day, six days a week, to earn one dollar."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"The ice industry ended when the river became polluted by factories and serge being dumped in the river. Refrigeration was invented around 1900."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"… got glue for his paper at the George Seavey Glue Factory in Farmingdale. Boston Flint Paper Company bought out the Sand Paper Mill, Reservoir Dam…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Carr O'Brien Block

"… bank, commercial shops, sail loft, boot and shoe factory, clothing factory, and now houses the Prison Showroom, a retail outlet for products…"

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"… one girl from each factory and there were seven factories and I was the one chosen at the Union factory."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Notable Residents

"… various shops, a sailmaking loft, a boot and shoe factory, a clothing factory and today serves as the showroom for the Maine State Prison. <- Prev."

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

"A short distance from the girst mill was a shoe shop owned by John Metcalf. At one time the shoe shop had a tannery connected to it operated by H.C."