This medal was awarded to the Bates Manufacturing Company in 1951 for 100 years of valued service. The Jordan Marsh Company bestowed this medal to the mills, “commemorating our New England centennial associates whose integrity of character and preservation of American...
In honor of Labor Day this month, the museum would like to recognize and honor the hard work and dedication of the mill workers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These three undated photographs show mill workers at different parts of the textile making...
August 17, 2022, Lewiston, ME — From farming and gardening lore, to the best times to stargaze and plant, to its uncanny weather forecasts, the Farmers’ Almanac has been informing and entertaining for over 200 years – from right here in Lewiston. At this next...
This is a photograph from the 1930s of Morin Brick Workers. The son of French Canadian immigrants, John Morin and his family founded Morin Brick Co. in 1912. Using the clay-like soil of the Androscoggin region, Morin Brick made bricks that were used in the...
July 13, 2022 – Lewiston, ME — ‘Movement at the Museum,’ a new series of classes at Maine MILL, will create fresh and healthy social activities for the local community, brightening up the region’s Friday evenings once every month. Classes will take place from...
