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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…"

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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…"

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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…"

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

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

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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."

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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."

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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…"

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

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

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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."

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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