Walker Woolen Mill

The Walker Woolen Mill, also known as the Foster Mill, was built in Wilton, Maine, in 1840.^[1] It was expanded and refurbished over the next 40–50 years using local local pine and wood eventually shipped using the transcontinental railroad.^[2]

Maine is the most wooded state in the United States, and has a long history of manufacturing everything from shoes to paper.^[3] Charles Forster, a later owner who has been called the "father of the toothpick"^[4] used the mill to produce the world's first toothpick in 1881. It later housed a supplier of fabric to the automotive industry and a factory producing plastic cutlery. In 2015, the Town of Wilton acquired it through foreclosure.^[5]

By 2019 the mill had undergone the final stages of demolition.