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."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… were numerous gristmills, paper mills, three silver mines, and a foundry. Farmland dominated the rural area to the village’s west."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"Davis and presented him with a massive solid silver watch-chain, as a small token of their appreciation of him as a man and master workman."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"He was even in the silver and coal mining business in Maine. In 1880, Curtis was in the farming business near Gothenburg, Nebraska."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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