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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…"

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

"… low for cash or exchange of produce. The wooden barrels in which it came became too expensive and hard to handle and have been wholly replaced by…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"The rag picker took the barrel home, and dumped its contents on the ground. These are the buttons and buckles that Mazie Douglass found, years later."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"He was a cooper, a maker of barrels, and the sheltered harbor near the head of Somes Sound offered running water and plenty of hardwood."

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