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Rockland Area Lime Industries

Rockland Area Lime Industries

Hardcover

General United States History

Publisher Price: $31.99

ISBN10: 1531627439
ISBN13: 9781531627430
Publisher: Arcadia Lib Ed
Published: Jun 7 2006
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
Ever since William McIntyre produced and sold the first lime shipment in 1733, lime production has been a vital part of the Rockland area economy. Local farmers dug into a vein of high-quality lime rock running along the coast from Thomaston to Lincolnville. They burned it in homemade kilns and shipped it to cities farther south to be used as mortar and plaster. As lime manufacturing grew in the area,

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