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Description
"The Weston & Brainerd Sawmill, the Bragg Shovel Handle Factory and the Stinchfield Carding Mill make up the group of buildings in the center. Two or more of the Bailey Oilcloth buildings show in the distance, breaking the skyline. The Parker residence on Alder Street shows over the Weston Mill. The John Turner home on West Front Street is visible still higher up and to the right.
The picture is evidently taken to show the effects of high water, as part of the underpinning is gone from the the Stinchfield Mill and flood damage is very apparent in the back of the Bragg Shovel Handle Factory. The logs in the river are characteristic of that day. The timber in subsequent years averaged smaller and in more recent times has almost entirely given way to four foot pulp wood.
~Roland T. Patten, Custodian of Historical Views, 1929"
About This Item
- Title: Head of Skowhegan Island, from Elm Street, ca. 1870
- Creation Date: circa 1870
- Subject Date: circa 1870
- Location: Skowhegan, Somerset County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 9 cm x 18 cm
- Local Code: 70-058-3.jpg
- Collection: Henry A. Wyman Collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Bragg Shovel Handle Factory (Skowhegan, Me.)
- Kennebec River (N.H. and Me.)
- Mills--Maine--Skowhegan
- Skowhegan (Me.)--Description and views
- Skowhegan Island (Me.)
- Stinchfield Carding Mill (Skowhegan, Me.)
- Weston & Brainerd Sawmill (Skowhegan, Me.)
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- Alder Street
- Bailey Oilcloth
- Bragg Shovel Handle Factory
- flood Parker
- longs
- pulp
- Stinchfield Carding Mill
- Stinchfield Mill
- timber
- West Front Street
- Weston & Brainerd Sawmill
For more information about this item, contact:
Skowhegan History House66 Elm Street, PO Box 832, Skowhegan, ME 04976
(207) 474-6632
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