Published by Calais High School, Calais, Maine, 1976
Seller: Charles Lewis Best Booksellers, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperbound. First Impression. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 60. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. . being a bit of a Whole Earth Catalogue tailored to New England for Calais, Maine. . In June 1809, Plantation Number 5 PS was incorporated as Calais after Calais, France, in honor of French assistance during the American Revolution. The river provided the mill town with water power for industry, which included sawmills, clapboard and shingle mills, two planing mills, a saw factory, two axe factories and four grain mills. There were foundries, machine shops, granite works, shoe factories and a tannery. Other businesses produced bricks, bedsteads, brooms, carriages and plaster. In exceptionally good condition.