“Magic Town": Selling Rumford in the Nineteenth Century with C. Ian Stevenson
Автор: Maine Historical Society
Загружено: 2025-10-31
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In 1890, paper magnate Hugh Chisholm finished purchasing 1100 acres along the Androscoggin River at Rumford Falls, Maine, a waterpower source so profound it was nicknamed "New England’s Niagara." The falls offered more power than Chisholm needed for his own manufacturing and so it provided him the opportunity to transform this so-called wilderness into a thriving urban oasis. By 1906, one Boston newspaper dubbed Rumford Falls “Magic Town,” indicating the fulfillment of Chisholm's vision and the apex of capitalism. In this talk historian C. Ian Stevenson explained how Chisholm used visual media to sell his idea through a combination of printed promotional materials, such as illustrated pamphlets and postcards, and physical infrastructure, such as repeating railroad station architecture, to convince investors to purchase lots and build there.
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![[60 fps] A Trip Through Paris, France in late 1890s / Un voyage à travers Paris, 1890](https://ricktube.ru/thumbnail/fo_eZuOTBNc/mqdefault.jpg)
