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Dennysville Lumber Company PhotosDescription
Workers pose for a picture on the newly rebuilt Dennysville Lumber Company, following a devastating fire in 1907. The young girl in the foreground in Marie Mahar, who happened by just in time, and was invited to joint the picture by her uncle, who is standing bedside her. The smoke stack for the waste burner on the opposite (Edmunds) side of the river is visible in the background. Other photographs record the adjacent mills, boarding houses, stacks of drying lumber, and teamsters preparing to haul the sawn boards to market. When the mill was closed in the 1920's it was purchased by the Higgins Brothers and moved across the road where it served first as a Gulf Oil Distributorship, later a chicken barn, and was remodeled int the 1960's as recreational hall called the EDM--for Edmunds Dennysville and Marion-Youth Center. It was purchased as an art gallery.Photograph Details
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Originally built and operated by the Lincoln family in the 1780's, work in the mills came to an abrupt and sudden end in 1928, after they were acquired by Dead River Timberland Company. In 1894, the Lincoln family business was sold to the Dennysville Lumber Company, a consortium of local and area business interests. For the thirty years of their operation, the Dennysville Lumber Company provided employment the year round in their mills and woods camps, and produced a variety of wood products for local and distant markets. During the winter of 1899-1900, for example the Company had twenty-six crews of men and sixty-five horses in the woods in different places. The lath mill was in full operation, employing a number of men and teams who were hauling wood to the mills and laths to the railroad station to be shipped to New York. A four man crew was producing 40,000 laths a day. In 1916, the Dennysville Lumber Company sold all its timberland and mills to the Dead River Timberland Company for $147,500, which was in turn leased to the Eastern Manufacturing company in 1918 for ten years for $1,150 annually. When the lease expired on April 30, 1928, the mill business was terminated. In 1929 the Dead River Company sold to the Higgins Brothers the tan yard lot and tannery building, the box and novelty mill structure, the new office building, and land by the railroad station. The dam was blown and the pond drained in 1930.Collection
Dennys River Historic Photographs, Photos for Map
