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499: 514: 509: 231:. The new construction caused a house to be demolished, without the acquisition of the necessary permit, for which the YWD paid the Town of North Yarmouth $ 4,000. 504: 349: 412: 494: 26: 179: 174:, founder of Forest Paper Company and early president of Yarmouth Water Committee, the successor to Pumgustuk Water Company. Hammond built 280: 228: 166:
in Yarmouth, near where the water company was based. The company sourced its water supply from Hammond Spring on the property of
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Yarmouth's second large fire occurred in April 1900, when a corn-canning factory caught a spark from a sawmill.
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After a fire in town in 1887, Pumgustuk Water Company raised funds for two municipal cisterns in 1888.
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In 2012, after 89 years on East Elm Street, YWD moved to new premises at 181 Sligo Road, beside the
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The stone wall inside Yarmouth History Center is original to the Water District building. A
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Yarmouth Water Committee was incorporated as Yarmouth Water District in 1923.
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Pumgustuk Water Company was renamed Yarmouth Water Committee in 1895.
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with a tank capacity of a quarter of a million gallons was erected off
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YWD's former building became the home of Yarmouth Historical Society.
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Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History
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Water industry
Yarmouth, Maine
yarmouthwaterdistrict.org
water company
Yarmouth, Maine
Native American
Lorenzo L. Shaw
Joseph Y. Hodsdon
George W. Hammond
Fourth Falls
Forest Paper Company
George W. Hammond
Camp Hammond
National Register of Historic Places
water tower
West Elm Street
Portland Water District
Cousins Island
Cumberland Foreside
Brunswick Branch
Maine Central Railroad
The Royal River Water Trail
Acts and Resolves as Passed by the Legislature


"Water Works History"


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