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Show Maine's First Woolen Hill. The Dexter Eastern State gives some interesting facts connected with the woolen manufacturing industry in Maine. The second woolen mill in the Dnited States was erected at North Andover, Mass. A year or two after its starting the proprietors built another mill at An-1 dover, Mass., and, about the same time, I familv. .lerrv and 1817, two or tne same lamuv, nenj mm 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. L iviston Journal. |