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Description
Burnham, an agricultural town on the outermost northern boundary of Waldo County, was incorporated in 1824. Originally called Twenty-five Mile Pond Plantation, it is eight miles by eight miles in size.
Many industries have operated in the town over time: a tannery, brickyard, lumber, shingle and stave mills; a shoe factory, and a patent medicine company, among others. The Maine Chair Company, opened in 1922, later was an Ethan Allen Furniture Company factory. It closed in 1990.
For decades Burnham was a busy railroad town, with passenger and freight trains passing through frequently. Burnham Junction was the intersection of the Maine Central and the northern terminus of the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad. In 1871 the town had an inn called The Rail Road House.
About This Item
- Title: View at Burnham, ca. 1915
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Creation Date: circa 1915
- Subject Date: circa 1915
- Location: Burnham, Waldo County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.104677
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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