Maine Memory Network

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…"

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

"The waters were diverted to canals to service the paper making facilities along the canal banks. Railroad service was also extended by Hugh J."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… was also a small coal wharf, a store and a tidal-powered grist mill on the creek. Coal was a very necessary commodity for heating, once most of the…"

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."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"Now the rope is typically placed over a roller powered by a hydraulic hauler that pulls a trap up from the ocean floor."

Maine State Museum

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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…"

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…"

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."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… had its first water company, the Presque Isle Water Company, which built and operated the reservoir at Mantle Lake to supply the town with water…"

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."

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…"

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…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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