Keyes Fiber opens, creating many jobs. 1905 Jewell Crating mill opens. It is destroyed by a fire in 1949. 1918 First passenger train traveling from the east crosses the new railroad bridge built over the Kennebec. 1925 Lawrence High School burns.
Students go to school in the opera house.
1952 Town votes to build a new fire station on Lawrence Avenue. Wooden Elementary is built not far from Keyes Field, It becomes an annex for Lawrence High in 1986. 1960 New Lawrence High School opens. The former high school becomes Lawrence Junior High. A new Kennebec Valley Technical College campus is opened.