Maine Memory Network

Architecture & Landscape database - Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975

"Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for Development…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Study for the LDM Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, ca. 1911

"Study for the LDM Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, ca. 1911 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… attracted other industries such as oilcloth factories, iron works, shoe factories, a sandpaper mill and The Heart Cure Co., a large mail order…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Corn Canning Industry

"… By 1913, Maine employed 7,000 people in corn factories, one-third of them women. Maine was ranked third in the country in corn packing, behind…"

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."

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."

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 - 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 - Energy

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

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"… as late as the 1950s farmers hauled potatoes to starch factories. Former potato farmer Larry Park talks about starch factories in Presque Isle."

Historic Hallowell - More About the Johnson Brothers

"The Johnson Shoe Factory was doing quite well when, unfortunately, Wil Johnson died in 1906. Despite his brother's death, Richardson Johnson was…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"The sardine factory alone employed 100 people at the height of its success. A story continues even today that for years and years after the medicinal…"

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

"In March of 1966, the factory was moved to a different plant (currently Hannaford) on Whitten Road. In 1974, the shoe factory closed all together."

Historic Hallowell - Cotton Mill & Johnson Shoe Citations

"23, 2011) Johnson Shoe Factory, Hallowell, 1900. n.d. n.d. < http:/www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=29429>. Maine Memory Network. n.d."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"In the spring of 1900, the new Bag Factory at Rumford Falls was started; in December of 1900, the bag machines from the New York plant were shipped…"

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."

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…"

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"The factory, originally a spinning mill, is now Solon Woods where they make popsicle sticks and other small wood pieces."

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

"A butter factory, Carrabassett Creamery, was organized as a stock company in Nov.1899. The factory was built near the bridge crossing Gilman Stream."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early 1800s

"… the bridge and to the north, upon which several mills and a marble factory were built. <- Prev. Page .............................. Next Page ->"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY

"The bottom tip of Factory Island and the Saco shoreline are visible on upper left. X Wildlife abounds, and includes deer, fox, and all manner of…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Brown and Company built the first factory on Water Street. The next two decades saw 23 sardine factories constructed in Lubec, bringing employment…"