Strong was called "Toothpick Capital of the World" due to the productivity of the Strong Wood Products Incorporated plant, which once manufactured 20 million toothpicks per day. It was noted as "one of the prettiest villages in the county." By 1886, town industries included a boot and shoe factory, machine shops, Maine's first cheese factory, a clothespin manufacturer, a maker of cane seat chair bottoms, and an excelsior factory. The narrow gauge Sandy River Railroad connected Farmington and Phillips in 1879.
By 1859, when the population was 1,008, it had sawmills, a gristmill, a fulling mill, a carding machine, a starch factory and a tannery. The northeast branch of the Sandy River provided water power for mills, helping make Strong prosperous. Farmers grew hay, wheat, corn, oats and potatoes. Set on a hilly intervale above a big bend in the Sandy River, the area provided fertile soil for agriculture. The Maine Republican Party was founded here on August 7, 1854.
Readstown was incorporated on January 31, 1801, and named for Caleb Strong, a Founding Father of the United States and governor of Massachusetts. It was first settled in 1784 by William Read from Nobleboro. 3, First Range North of Plymouth Claim, West of Kennebec River (or T3 R1 NPC WKR), then successively known as Middletown and Readstown.
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