Name/Title
Charles B. Story Power PlantEntry/Object ID
1983.19.8Description
A B/W photograph of the Charles B. Story Power Plant located on Shad Island.
Marked on the front, "Brunswick Electric Power Station, 600 HP, reached by a wire suspension bridge 300 feet long".
Photo was taken between 1888 & 1892.
Marked on the back, "Installation by Charles B. Story, manager. Charles B. Story went to Brunswick, Me about 1888 to organize an Electric Power Plant and built on the island which local people believed would never stand in Spring Floods"
Mr. Story and family lived on Federal Street. They moved in 1893 to Hoosick Falls, NY where he built a new power plant and other utilities, Electric Trolley Line Telephone Co. etc.Lexicon
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Charles B. Story Power Plant, Shad Island, Brunswick Electric Power Station