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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Stimpson House

"… was lived in by Brown Stimpson, a druggist and mining expert. The original ceilings were reported to be 12’ downstairs and 9’ upstairs."

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 2 of 17

"… built ships, fished, and processed fish; mined and cut granite and slate; cut and shipped ice, as well as farmed the state's rocky soils."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 3 of 3

"… 150 workers were employed at a mine called the Brown & McAllister Mine which was in operation from 1890 to 1898."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… go: spruce gum, several lumber mills, farming, mining of phosphate, and even gold mining, which continues today."

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Byron Historical Society

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Monson Historical Society

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"In early 1880 there were 29 mining companies in Blue Hill. By the end of that summer 10 remained. Some ran out of capital."

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Sullivan and Sorrento Historical Society

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… numerous gristmills, paper mills, three silver mines, and a foundry. Farmland dominated the rural area to the village’s west."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Niagara One of the world’s only moontide springs Mines that once produced some of the nations’s finest mica The mine that produced the world’s…"

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Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"Slate, a rock formed from shale and mined by quarrying, had low heat and not very much pressure put on it."

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Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"John and his business partners bought two mining companies along Poor Man’s Creek. He hoped to make enough money to buy a farm before he went home."

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Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"I could get mine there. Another thing is, you can get a passport there and you can also register your vehicle and many other things."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"… peaked at just over 2200 during the 19th Century mining boom, entered a period of slow decline during the first half of the 20th Century and…"

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"There were also two mining companies, the Blue Hill Bay Company and the East Surry Company. Despite the town's many businesses however, a worldwide…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Perkins, V.C. A Mining Boom in Maine: Blue Hill, 1876-1883, Reprinted from an issue in New England Quarterly. Porter Joseph W."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"Some of these included granite mined in East Blue Hill, lumber, ice from local ponds that was shipped in sawdust to keep from melting, and fish."

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Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… dumps would frequently result in a gold mine find of old metal, bottles, cans and rubber tires."

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Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"… Queen Susie (Knight) Calder was born on Lead Mine Road, the oldest girl in a family of 12 children."

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Memorial Library 1850 – 1900 1860 • Lead mines established on South Bay in North Lubec and in West Lubec 1861 • 200 Lubec men, 18 to 40, entered…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"He also invested $1,000 in a copper mine. It turned out that it was too expensive to mine and he lost that investment as well."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"Students in front of the Mines school, Blue Hill, 1905Blue Hill Historical Society Schoolhouses There are no records of when the first school was…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… Be, Desire Lines, Sweet Water, About Me, Child Of Mine, Room To Grow, and The Conversation Begins are her titles."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… where a sumptuous dinner was served up in a “mine host’s” best style. As the party were about to start out, Capt."