Maine Memory Network

Old Berwick Historical Society

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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…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… two newcomers leased Hiram Comstock’s tidal grist mill located at Mill Creek in North Lubec. According to Reverend Jernegan in the prospectus he…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Flour produced by his grist mill helped provide a more varied diet for area residents. In 1832 a canal connecting Johnson Bay and South Bay was dug…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Lubec – shell middens found on South Bay and Mill Creek. Portaged canoes over Carrying Place bog to reach ocean travel routes."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"… lids for boxes, as they came from a local “box mill.” On the bench is a jig with box ends and sides shown in assembly with nails and hammer."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 3 of 3

"… designed to manufacture bobbins for use in the textile industry as noted in the textile business history above."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"This was the second textile mill in town. Piscataquis Woolen Company Mill, Guilford, 1912Guilford Historical Society The first was built on the…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"Wearing such a garment to protect his clothes indicates that Soule worked at a trade or in a factory, perhaps in the local textile mill."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… window in the first two stories of both of the textile mills located on either side of the river. Annual River Drive, Guilford, ca."

McArthur Public Library

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 1 of 3

"Rayon filament was delivered to textile mills, wound onto cones, ready to thread onto looms and be made into fabrics marketed as artificial silk."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 1 of 3

"… Mill in Lewiston produced vast quantities of textiles for war purposes, from uniform fabric and hospital bedding, to parachutes and life rafts."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"A grist mill and feed store changed hands from M. L. Hussey to Frank Palmer. S. J. Jackson Company set up a Men’s Haberdashery."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"… Theatre, 1939Guilford Historical Society True Textiles, Inc. X Community Theatre Program, Guilford, July 3,1939Guilford Historical…"

Maine State Museum

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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… owners sold this powdery product to cotton textile mills in southern Maine where it was used for sizing cloth."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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