Excelsior Mill Records
Scope and Contents
The financial records of a mill owned by Austin & Towle located in Belgrade Mills, Maine. The mill produced finely curled wood shavings called excelsior used to pack fragile items. The records list the number of bales sold. Many of the records list business with the Boston Excelsior Company.
Dates
- Creation: 1879-1895
Creator
- Austin & Towle (Organization)
Restrictions on Access
Kept at Fogler Library's offsite storage facility. One week's notice required for retrieval.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Information on literary rights available in the repository.
Historical Note
In 1871 David Golder built an Excelsior Mill in Belgrade Mills, Maine, and soon sold it to Nathaniel Towle and S.C. Mills. They sold the mill after a few years to Towle & Austin, probably in 1879. Sometime in the early 1890s E.W. Towle bought out Austin and ran the mill.
Extent
1 ledger (34 cm.)
Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Towle, E. W. (Person)
- Boston Excelsior Company (Organization)
- Excelsior Mill (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Excelsior Mill Records
- Status
- No Additional Box Or Folder List For This Small Collection
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English.
Repository Details
Part of the Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections Repository
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono ME 04469-5729 United States
207-581-1686
