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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]
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.
In 1867, after the mill changed its name to S. D. Warren Paper Mill Company, Warren decided to add wood fibers with rags fibers for paper. It was the first mill in the United States to do so. The mill became the largest in the world. By 1880, the mill produced 35,000 pounds of paper per day.
In June 2019, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed into law LD 994, sponsored by state Sen. David Woodsome, directing the Maine Public Utilities Commission to approve a 20-year, long-term power purchase contract. That contract was unanimously approved by the Maine PUC on November 5, 2019, and signed by Central Maine Power (CMP) on December 20, 2019.
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]
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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Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains is a 2020 book by Kerri Arsenault about the paper and pulp industry in the American city Rumford, Maine.. The book focusses on Rumford Mill and perceptions about the mill's health impact on the local community.