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Woodland, Maine 04736
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The Mill
House. Corner of Summit Street and First Avenue. Woodland, Maine.
Washington Street. Woodland, Maine. This house was transitioning into what was known as Washington Street Extension—an area that was home to a number of paper mill executives.
Typical Mill House on Hillside Street at the corner of Third Avenue. Woodland, Maine. Many of these were two-family homes. The St. Croix Paper Company was established in the first decade of the 20th century. Many of the houses date from 1900-1920.
Gymnasium. Woodland High School. Woodland, Maine. Built c 1970.
Yardley’s Market. Woodland, Maine. One of the few buildings left below Main Street.
Summit Street. Woodland, Maine. Looking toward Second Avenue from Third Avenue.
Sanctuary of Peoples United Methodist Church. Woodland, Maine.
Church Bell. Peoples United Methodist Church. Third Avenue. Woodland, Maine. When the church was remodeled in the 1990s, the bell tower was removed and the entrance was moved to the Summit Street side.
Peoples United Methodist Church. 20 Third Avenue. Woodland, Maine. Built in 1906-07. Rebuilt and enlarged in 1921.
Stained Glass Window. Peoples United Methodist Church. Third Avenue. Woodland, Maine.
Burglar Alarm. Merrill Trust Company (former). Woodland, Maine.
Vietnam War Memorial. Woodland, Maine.
Woodland Public Library. Main Street. Woodland, Maine. Built in 1922-23.
Woodland High School Athletic Field. Most, if not all, of the houses that were beyond the fence on the far side are now gone. Woodland, Maine.
Hillside Street. Woodland, Maine. I lived just over two blocks away from school. We didn’t have a cafeteria, so I went home for lunch. Most of the houses were “mill houses” built in the first decade or two of the 1900s.
The smell of money. Woodland Pulp & Paper Mill. Baileyville, Maine. Founded as St. Croix Paper Company just after 1900, it has gone through many iterations since. In the seventies, upwards of 1,500 people were employed directly or indirectly by the mill.
Woodland High School. Woodland, Maine. The high school also houses junior high students and was built in 1955-56.
Woodland High School. Baileyville, Maine. The school dates to the late sixties to early seventies. The gym to the left was built after the school was completed.
War Memorial. Woodland, Maine.
You can’t go home again. 96 Hillside Street is now 29. Woodland, Maine. My old house was the first school in town. It appeared on the U.S. Census for the first time in 1910. It once was a duplex.
Underneath that hideous blue siding are dark brown cedar shakes—painted by Dad and yours truly. Hillside Street. Woodland, Maine. Built c. 1906. The town’s first school building.
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