Keywords: shoe factories
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870
"… Society In 1871 Edward O’Brien established a shoe factory in the Carr O’Brien Block at the Upper Corner to boost the flagging economy."
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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."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History
"… 19th century, as paper mills, textile mills, and shoe factories proliferated along the Androscoggin, additional waves of immigrants, in the person…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4
"A boot and shoe factory, a brick mill, a sawmill and a clothespin factory opened, and other businesses that followed also flourished because people…"
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"Brown and Company built the first factory on Water Street. The next two decades saw 23 sardine factories constructed in Lubec, bringing employment…"
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village
"… a sawmill, grist mill, salt box factory, starch factory, wagon shop, novelty mill, carding factory, dye house, fulling mill, clover mill, and…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries
"… door, the baker with fresh bread and pastry, the shoe salesman with the latest footwear, the vegetable truck, the dairy wagon and even the local…"
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future
"… the first built in 1803, salt factories, shoe factories, carding mills, blacksmith shops, and ice houses."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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