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Historic Hallowell - The Johnson Shoe Bros.

"The Johnson Shoe Bros. The Jarnes-Hamburger Factory closed down, Twin Johnson Brothers soon found, A building made from wood with a brick…"

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"On a Wednesday at 1:30 pm in 1927, the Johnson Shoe Factory workers were informed that the company was closing and were forced to leave immediately."

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… such as oilcloth factories, iron works, shoe factories, a sandpaper mill and The Heart Cure Co., a large mail order patent-medicine concern."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Schools

"… worked at the local Hallowell cotton mills and shoe factories) had to attend school as well. Working in factories was a very popular occupation in…"

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"The Cotton Mill closed and had to sell all of its machinery in 1890 and was replaced by the shoe industry."

Historic Hallowell - Row House

"Here lived some of Hallowell's early textile workers. Built by Isaac Gage of Augusta, this Federal-style worker's residence on Second Street was…"

Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product

"Workers produced building stones, paving stones and statuary and monuments. The paving stones, 6x8 inches, sold for 20 cents apiece and were shipped…"

Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"Granite Workers, Hallowell Granite Works, Hallowell, ca. 1920Hubbard Free Library In 1901 the average Maine granite cutter received between $2.80…"

Historic Hallowell - The City of Hallowell

"City Office workers were communicating with Central Maine Power and the food bank to get power to the area and get food to the elderly and needy."

Historic Hallowell - One of Many Monuments

"… One well known example of Hallowell Granite workers’ skill is the National Monument to the Forefathers in Plymouth, Massachusetts."

Historic Hallowell - The Boston Flint Company

"When they would inhale, it would damage the workers' lungs. Mr. Tenney tested with many types of minerals to create sandpaper."

Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"Wire mills still exist today, but workers use high-tech machines to cut the wire and shrink it to a certain diameter."

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"The quarry worker gives scale to the granite slab. Stone and statuary were protected during shipment (by ship, and after 1852, by rail) in crates…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… shipbuilding yards along the Kennebec and lots of workers building these ships. They would get giant logs to put in their ships and huge quantities…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 2

"1,000 utility and tree service workers worked 20 hour days to fix lines and clean up trees. 2. CMP had to restore power to over 250,000 customers 3."

Historic Hallowell - Child Labor

"1885Hubbard Free Library Two hundred workers were required during peak production in the Cotton Mill in Hallowell, Maine."

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"The river is calm and workers are dressed in pants and long sleeved shirts. Hallowell was the location of the great sorting boom for down-river mills."

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… an entire city block, employed 100 production workers, and 20 hand-copiers who addressed envelopes off-site. "Oint-Ease," Dr."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The workers used splitting forks and pick poles to line up the blocks that were lifted by the steam hoist."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The workers used splitting forks and pick poles to line up the blocks that were lifted by the steam hoist."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… haul the ice down our ice house and then other workers would shove it up the ramp into the ramp and stack it."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"… haul the ice down our ice house and then other workers would shove it up the ramp into the ramp and stack it."

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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."