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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4
"Jewelry makers, painters, photographers, wood-carvers, knitters, crocheters, spinners, weavers all offer their wares at these events."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4
"… effort despite frightening shortages of manpower, wood, chemicals, and the supplies normally needed in the operation of its mills? It took careful…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4
"The wood processing faculties were old and tired, necessitating the building of a new woodroom in 1966."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford
"… the result of unsupervised candles, lanterns, wood or oil stoves, or cigarettes from human hands. Rumford experienced numerous expensive fires."
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"… and the eastern border’s terminus at Lake of the Woods (the intersection of modern-day Ontario, Minnesota, and Manitoba) were negotiated with…"
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Aroostook Historical and Art Museum
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"He operated a wood mill in Arundel and actively supported the colonists in the Revolution. This was Stephen Titcomb’s heritage as he prepared to…"
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Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2
"… of the package in the form of nails, splinters of wood and bits of the lettering are eagerly sought for as relics of our hundred year remembrance.”…"
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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head
"… Quoddy Head Light Keepers Association But wood rots. Salt spray and dominating fog wreaked severe deterioration within twenty years."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block
"Pat Hennin, who owned Wood Butcher tools from 1991-1999, and a Century 21 real estate business in 1999."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter
"… morn, we formed in a line of battle in the woods and marched out across the battlefield and barged on a fort, the principal one at Williamsburg…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life
"… Office, Saddle Horses, [and] Excellent Livery” (Wood 73). The Inn offered the public performances of a small orchestra on Saturday evenings."
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Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair
"… (remains of which can still be found in the woods), sheds and stables. Blue Hill Fair, ca."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2
"Encountering dense fog off Wood Island, Captain Lermond anchored off the eastern end of Stratton Island but dragged anchor onto a ledge during a gale."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"… not really roads but Indian footpaths through the woods. Generally the trails followed firm ground rather than a direct course, avoiding swamps and…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth
"A few years later it was sold to William R. Wood, of Portland, who was proprietor in 1904 and ran the business as The United Packers, with a capacity…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4
"… at the age of 25, was the manufacturing of wood fiber tableware which was lost to fire. His next was to establish the Umbagog Pulp Company at…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4
"… Co-Generation Company, which could burn oil, wood bio-mass, coal, chipped rubber, auto tires, and natural gas as fuel to produce steam at 1250 psi…"
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"… probably in 1866, and worked various places -- Wood Bishop & Co. foundry, National Insurance Co., and probably other businesses in the area."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"… kinds of elevations provided a variety of wood, “…maple, birch, beach, (sic) ash, elm, basswood, pine, hemlock, fir, spruce, cedar with some oak on…"
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"… were exchanged for cash, beef, pork, flour and wood products. The town entered a period of growth and prosperity and in 1820, the year that Maine…"
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