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Show Maine's First Woolen Mill. The Dexter Eastern State gives some interesting facts connected with the woolen manufacturing industry in Maine. The second woolen mill in the United States was erected at North Andover, Mass, A year or two after its starting the proprietors built another mill at Andover, An-dover, Mass., and, about the same time, 1817, two of the same family, Jerry and Amos Abbott, started northward to look for a site for a saw mill and woolen mill. They decided on Dexter and in 1820 established es-tablished the business there. This was sot only the first cloth making mill in Maine, but the first to ship goods from Maine to the Boston market. Lewiston Journal |