Abstract
Maine had a long history of economic and technological innovation which began long before it became a state in 1820. Over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, woolen mills, shoe factories, paper mills, hydroelectric power and utilities, and other components of mainstream America’s industrial and commercial revolutions became key parts of most Mainers’ daily lives. This article argues that the blue highway signs one passes on entering Maine—Maine: The Way Life Should Be—conceal much of Maine’s actual past and present, especially its rich and complex history of innovation.
First page
22
Last page
27
DOI
https://doi.org/10.53558/IEQL8231
Recommended Citation
Segal, Howard P. . "Economic and Technological Innovation in Maine before the Twentieth Century: Complex, Uneven, but Pervasive and Important." Maine Policy Review 23.1 (2014) : 22 -27, https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr/vol23/iss1/5.
