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Leonard's Mills -- Maine -- Bradley

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Lawrence Hurd, interviewed by Bill Mackowski

 Series
Abstract NA3676 Lawrence Hurd, interviewed by Bill Mackowski, January 24, 2010, Bangor, Maine. Hurd, age 98 and considered the dean of Maine basket makers, talks about growing up in Old Town; knowing many of the Indians living on Indian Island; working at Old Town Canoe Company; 1936 worked in woods for Penobscot Northern Fiber Company; then worked for Alan Comstock in Aurora, Maine; 1938 made first basket; Albert Nicola; Buddy Ranco; John Ranco; Charles Roundy; first basket he sold he received...
Dates: 2010-2012

Madawaska Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1054-sc
Abstract Records of a company located in Bangor, Maine, involved in the logging industry in the 1920s and 1930s. The records include white forms which are scale reports listing various logging contractors, specie, and quantity cut in Township 11 Range 13 in the Umsaskis and Priestly districts from Dec. 1927 to March 1928. The yellow forms list the names of individuals working for the Madawaska Company paid from its Clayton Lake office and indicate the distribution of work performed in various sources...
Dates: 1927-circa 1999; Majority of material found within 1927-1928

Maine Forest and Logging Museum Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1763
Scope and Contents Collection, 1957-1998, includes documents and files about the Maine Forest and Logging Museum in Bradley, Maine. Specifically includes information about Leonard's Mills Dam and Chemo Pond documenting elevation data, recorded water levels, and restoration/alteration projects and proposals. Also included are the executive committee's and the board of director's meeting records and member lists. Correspondence files include letters from the Department of Environmental Protection, the...
Dates: 1957-1998