Keywords: machinery
Item 16375
Farnsworth Mill machinery, Lisbon, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Lisbon Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Lisbon Falls Media: Photographic print
Item 102018
Saco and Pettee buildings along Smith Street, Biddeford, ca. 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Postcard
Item 37311
164-166 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Pocahontas Fuel Company, Inc. Use: Machinery Exchange
Item 37234
25-31 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: W.L. Blake & Co. Use: Warehouse & Machine Shop
Exhibit
Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
Exhibit
The small town of Andover landed on the international map in 1962 when the Earth Station that had been built there successfully communicated with Telstar, the first telecommunications satellite.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill
"… going to shut down because southern states had machinery to make cotton, so they didn’t have to send it to the northern states."
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Revenue gunboat "Mahoning," Bangor, 1864
"I then went on board & examined her machinery guns & work generally which was all plain and of the very best material and painted & varnished and…"
Story
Growing up on a potato and dairy farm
by Paula Woodworth
Life growing up and working on a potato and dairy farm was hard work but fun in Aroostook County.
Story
A Story in a Stick
by Jim Moulton
A story about dowsing for a well in Bowdoin
