City/Town

Hartland (1896)

Map Title

Hartland Somerset County Maine 1896

Artist

George E. Norris

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Publication Date

1896

County

Somerset

Artist

George E. Norris

Dimensions

41.9 x 63.5 cm

Owner

Maine Historic Preservation Commission

Population of City/Town at Time of Publication

974

Description of City/Town

The principal water-power of the town is on the Sebasticook, at Hartland Village, near the eastern border of the town. There is here a factory manufacturing shawls and cassimeres, a satinet and carding factory, a grist-mill, two lumber-mills, a door, sash and blind factory, a furniture-factory, two tanneries, one for sole and one for upper leather, a carriage factory, etc. The shawl-factory employs about 75 hands and the two tanneries 50.

A Gazetteer of the State of Maine, George J. Varney, 1881, 1886

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Recommended Citation

Courtesy of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission.