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Shingle Mill Site on Cathance Stream in Marion, MaineDescription
Site of a shingle mill located below the bridge over the Cathance Stream, in Marion, Maine, and detailed in two individual maps of Washington County, published in 1861 and 1881, respectively.Context
A shingle mill is marked below the Route 86 Cathance Stream bridge in Marion on the 1860 map of Washington County, and in 1881 the Colby Atlas indicates a sawmill still operating here.
The Hydrographic Survey of the State Maine in 1867 reported the following "powers" or places suitable for a dam, on the Cathance Stream, beginning at the Great Works Pond in Edmunds, and so up the river through Marion:
First power on Cathance River: 10 ft head; a single sawmill and lath mill with old wooden machinery; manufactures 600,000 feet of long lumber per year. With improved machinery would yield four-fold. Owned by T.W. Allan and Son of Dennysville.
Second power three fourths of a mile above: rips of 10 ft fall; unimproved. Owned by John Smith of Dennysville.
Third power lath milldam one-quarter of a mile above: head thirteen feet; natural privilege, scarcely any dam needed; shingle mills and lath mills owned by Allan and Smith.
Fourth power sawmill dam ten rods above: nine foot head; sawmill owned by T.W. Allan of Dennysville.Collection
Photos for Map, Contemporary Photographs of the Dennys River Area
