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Old Town paper mill is 400,000 square-foot [1] paper mill on Portland Avenue [2] in Old Town, Maine [1] located adjacent to a 19th-century cemetery. [3] Four thousand feet of the site borders the Penobscot River, and the mill is located near the University of Maine. [1] In 2003, the mill employed 500 people; [1] in 2023 it had 199 workers.
Whipple's Gambo mill used the lumber to manufacture kegs holding as much as 25 pounds of powder. Kegs of gunpowder were shipped to Portland in canal boats when possible, but moved in horse-drawn sleighs when the canal was frozen. [4] Canal boats carried about 25 tons, and sometimes sailed all the way to Boston when weather was favorable. [5]
Portland (/ ˈ p ɔːr t l ə n d / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Cumberland County.Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. [4]
Portland, Maine, the largest tonnage seaport city in New England [4] Exports consist mostly of industrial products, including specialized machines and weaponry (aircraft and missiles especially), built by the region's educated workforce. About half of the region's exports consist of industrial and commercial machinery, such as computers and ...
Cumberland Mills was served by the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad (later Maine Central Railroad) and the Portland and Rochester Railroad (later Boston and Maine Railroad). Horse-drawn wagons transferred freight between the mill and the railroads. The wagons rode on 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge rails after 1874.
In 1998 the Fore River Company out of Portland, Maine bought the building, renovated it for office space, and leased the old mill to the Sea Dog Brewing Company, who in turn, added a patio overlooking the Androscoggin River. [5] On September 17, 1974, the Pejepscot Paper Company was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. [1]
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The book is about the small, rural town of Mexico, Maine, where for over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for nearly everyone in town, including three generations of Arsenault's family. While she had a happy childhood, years after she moved away, she realized the price she paid for that childhood.