Maine Memory Network

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

"This was a good dam, lumber mill, grist mill, clover and starch factory. Later a school house was built."

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

"… now the corner of the Bog Road and the Long Falls Dam Road. The next was directly across the street beside the Kimball Block (Kennison's Drugstore)."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"North Dam Mill, 2010. Photograph by Kylie Clukey, Biddeford High School. X For more information..."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"… Historical Society In 1900 though 1901 a dam was created to be able to send large logs down the river to send them right to the lumber company…"

Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"Some were powered by dams like the Wire Mill Dam. The dams worked like this. First, the water behind the dam flew through a pipe connected to a…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 8 of 17

"… 1866 on Spring Island in Biddeford near Bradbury Dam. J.G. Deering was eventually renamed J.G. Deering & Son Company once Joseph G."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 1 of 2

"… rights above and around the Falls, his plans for dams, canal, mills, a power company, and a water district could not be finalized."

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"The Skowhegan Island Skowhegan dam X Fishing on the Kennebec X by Kate Hodgdon, Scott Clarke, and Gus Hoy Skowhegan Island has been a…"

Old Berwick Historical Society

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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"Saw Logs Over the Dam, Guilford, ca. 1880Guilford Historical Society As the new village began to grow and more settlers arrived, simple subsistence…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… sent Ira Fish and 17 other men north to build dams for saw mills on Mattanawcook Stream. That winter, the men cut 5,000,000 board feet of lumber…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"… a large amount of ledge at either end of the new dam that must be removed to give sufficient waterway in high water that the best plan would be to…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 1 of 3

"… water source, due to its potential as a possible dam site. Another engineering firm of Boston, Sawyer & Moulton, prepared a report to the Board of…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"… and increased the water power by improving the dam. There was a carding mill operated by Mr. Purvis south of the bridge, near Mr."

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

"NEW VENTURES Sluice along the dam at Rumford Falls, 1906Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Hugh J."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… mills had previously been established around the dams built on Webb River, the boundary line between Mexico and Dixfield."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"Saw Logs Over the Dam, Guilford, ca. 1880Guilford Historical Society On February 16 of 1806, Robert Low Jr."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… Scotland, Ireland, England, came to build the dams, canals, brick structures, and other buildings on the Island, and manage the mills."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"… section kept on going and went down over the dam in Dover-Foxcroft. In 1858, the townspeople of Guilford decided to contract Isaac F."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… Historical Society In 1824, the first dam across the Piscataquis River in Guilford was erected, and another sawmill built alongside it on the…"

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

"SEE NOTE Dam Construction at Rumford Falls, ca 1895Greater Rumford Area Historical Society A study was conducted in 1985, prompted by the high price…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"… ice, logs flowed down the river and created a dam, causing the water to back up. When the water overflowed onto the banks, the Great Bangor Flood…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"… level of Day Mountain Pond to a point below the dam, the town had to install a suction pump to keep water supplied to the town."