Gazetteer of the State of Maine With Numerous Illustrations, by Geo. J. Varney

BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY B. B. RUSSELL, 57 CORNHILL. 1882. Public domain image from

152    GAZETTEER    OF    MAINE.

and contains 8 square miles. Tripp’s Pond, lying about halt a mile east-
ward, has an area of one and one-fourth square miles; the Upper, Middle
and Lower Range ponds, lying parallel with the last from the middle
of the town southward, contains 85-55 and 50-100ths of a square
mile respectively. The principal business of the town is at Mechanic

Falls. Poland Corner, at the centre of the town, has steam, grist,

saw and planing mills, and considerable neighborhood trade. There

is a lumber-mill and sash and blind factory at Page’s Mill on the river

above Mechanic Falls, and lumber-mills at Hacket’s Mills and Minot

Post-Oftice below, and at West Poland. At the southern an<rle of the
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