So much is discussed about the mill industry in Maine. This story is just a small blip on the Maine history radar, but it's quite fascinating. That is quite a change from the days of more than 20 million being pumped out daily. All of these would play a role in the industry completely drying up by 2003.Īccording to Yahoo! Life, the town of Strong now has absolutely zero toothpicks being manufactured. Those include cheaper foreign imports, favoring of nylon over wood, and a shift in societal norms. According to, many factors played into the industry's demise. Sadly, it was a relatively short run for Maine's toothpick empire. Talk about American industrialism at its finest. Here was this small Western Maine town that was cranking out enough toothpicks to cover an entire country by the day. These are numbers that are difficult to fathom. Not bad for a town of little over 1,000 people. In the aftermath of WWII- Strong’s golden age-over 75 billion toothpicks were being made there a year. This little spot in Franklin County was cranking out toothpicks like it was the townspeople's job.well, because it was.Īccording to travel website, Īt one point, 95 percent of all wooden toothpicks manufactured in America were made in Strong and its environs. The area mostly associated with this incredible fact is the town of Strong. I was 42 years old when I found out that Maine used to be the the nation's capital of toothpick manufacturing.
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