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Strong is a town in Franklin County, Maine, United States. Strong is home to the annual Sandy River Festival.
Strong was called "Toothpick Capital of the World" due to the productivity of the Strong Wood Products Incorporated plant, which once manufactured 20 million toothpicks per day.
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- 1784 - (Strong, Maine) was first settled in 1784 by William Read from Nobleboro.
www.wikipedia.org - Readstown was incorporated on January 31, 1801 and named for Caleb Strong, governor of Massachusetts.
www.wikipedia.org - 1854 - Strong
Strong, a post-township in Franklin co., Maine, on the E. side of Sandy river, about 36 miles N. E. from Augusta. Pop., 1008.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854. - The Maine Republican Party was founded in Strong, Maine on August 7, 1854.
www.wikipedia.org - By 1859, when the population of Strong, Maine was 1,008, it had sawmills, a gristmill, a fulling mill, a carding machine, a starch factory and a tannery.
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Sweatland Flat, Strong, Maine, about 1870
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Strong is situated near the centre of the settled portion of Franklin County. It is bounded on the east by New Vineyard, south by Farmington, west by ...Read MORE... - By 1886, Strong, Maine industries included a boot and shoe factory, machine shops, a cheese factory, a clothespin manufacturer, a maker of cane seat chair bottoms, and an excelsior factory.
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Strong Wood Turning Co.
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Strong, a post-village of Franklin co., Me., in Strong township (town), on the Sandy River, about 45 miles NNW. of Augustua, on the Franklin and...Read MORE...
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Sweatland Flat, Strong, Maine, about 1870
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Strong Wood Turning Co.
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1784 - (Strong, Maine) was first settled in 1784 by William Read from Nobleboro.
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Readstown was incorporated on January 31, 1801 and named for Caleb Strong, governor of Massachusetts.
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1854 - Strong
Strong, a post-township in Franklin co., Maine, on the E. side of Sandy river, about 36 miles N. E. from Augusta. Pop., 1008.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
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The Maine Republican Party was founded in Strong, Maine on August 7, 1854.
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By 1859, when the population of Strong, Maine was 1,008, it had sawmills, a gristmill, a fulling mill, a carding machine, a starch factory and a tannery.
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By 1886, Strong, Maine industries included a boot and shoe factory, machine shops, a cheese factory, a clothespin manufacturer, a maker of cane seat chair bottoms, and an excelsior factory.
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1886 - Strong
Strong is situated near the centre of the settled portion of Franklin County. It is bounded on the east by New Vineyard, south by Farmington, west by ... Read MORE...
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Strong, a post-village of Franklin co., Me., in Strong township (town), on the Sandy River, about 45 miles NNW. of Augustua, on the Franklin and... Read MORE...
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