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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's First Grist Mill

"… first crops of wheat and corn to be milled into flour, which greatly increased the kinds of food the settlers ate, as well as allowed them to store…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"The Flat Bag Department made bags for flour, groceries, clothing, confectioneries, and bread in more than 35 different sizes and more than 20 brands."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… products of every description: lumber, paper, flour, leather, shoes, toothpicks, bowling pins, clothespins, shingles, barrels, tool handles."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Farming

"With the mill as an additional resource, the homesteaders were able to be a self-sustaining community."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"store. Shoppers could buy a barrel of flour for the price of a cord of wood. They also sold large dried codfish, which customers would take home to…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Stores

"… a favorite of islanders, meat and produce, flour, candy, and household goods. It was a long day for a store owner who kept the doors open all day…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… staves and cordwood, returning with cargoes of flour, bolts of cloth and manufactured goods. Profitable trading necessitated the shipbuilding…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"They bought flour by the carload too. It is written that in the early 1890’s, “one car Royal Gem, one car Taylor’s Fancy Patent, just received direct…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… more than they could eat, they traded it for flour, sugar, soap, molasses, and oil. They eventually shipped fish to markets in Boston and New York…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"Many citizens had to go without food that consist of flour for a long while. Devastations went all over Kennebec County."

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…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… all manner of necessities and delicacies, from flour, candy and gasoline to the "rat cheese" much favored on the island."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Apple orchards were quickly established. (More About Farmington's Early Agriculture) Walton's Mill in winterFarmington Historical Society…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… while inbound freight was fertilizer, grain, and flour. The railroad often stored the freight in the winter."

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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