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Description
The mill on the shore was in "the Kingdom," once pronounced Muskingum, one of the early European settlements in Montville. The Kingdom had a series of mills, a hatter shop, tannery, school, and stores.
This mill was on the site of Smith Cram’s sawmill, built in 1798. In 1910 Carney Shure purchased the mill, where he sawed long lumber, staves, shingles and barrel heads. In 1927 the mill burned due to spontaneous combustion.
Through the years industry departed and spring freshets swept away the small dams and wood debris, so little was left in the Kingdom by the 1940s. About that time, however, Marjorie Sewell and her husband moved to the little camp to the right of the mill, where Anthony Maresh, a young Russian sailor, and his Montville bride, Gladys Hannan, lived while working in the Shure Brothers Mill.
Marjorie Sewell was one of the founders of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in 1950, and the property became its first location. A plan to build a state highway near the campus prompted a move in 1961 to Deer Isle, where the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and its campus have become renowned.
In 2010 Waterfall Arts' Arts Center at Kingdom Falls occupied the Haystack buildings.
About This Item
- Title: The Kingdom, Montville, ca. 1909
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Creation Date: circa 1909
- Subject Date: circa 1909
- Location: The Kingdom, Montville, Waldo County, ME
- Media: Glass Plate Negative
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.114029
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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