Milford Mill Company Records, 1828-1901, undated
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Not requestable
Scope and Content Note
The Milford Mill Company records contain financial papers, land deeds, and lease agreements from the company’s activities in Milford, Maine. This collection has been divided into three series.
Series I. Accounts, Invoices, Vouchers, and Receipts contains accounts, invoices, vouchers, and receipts, the majority of which are addressed to Milford Mill Company. There are however, a significant number of materials addressed or paid out by E. S. Coe who, as one of the owners, acted on behalf of the Milford Mill Company. Also included in this series is an account book belonging to John Winn, an agent of Milford Mill Company; Winn also worked as an agent for E. S. Coe and David Pingree.
Series II. Deeds and Leases contains purchase agreements, deeds, copies of deeds, lease agreements for land and saw mills, and permits for use of the land and timber.
Series III. Other contains correspondence, memos about the Milford lots, inventories, maps, sketches, and plans of the Milford lots. Also included in this series are papers relating to J. W. Goodwin’s settlement; these materials were originally bundled together and labeled as this, so the original title was maintained.
Dates
- Creation: 1828-1901, undated
Creator
- Milford Mill Company (Me.) (Organization)
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open for research use.
Historical Sketch
David Pingree (1795-1863), his heirs, and Eben S. Coe (1814-1899), as the Milford Mill Company, owned seventeen thousand acres within the township of Milford, Maine on the east side of the Penobscot River, from 1846 until 1880. Within this township, the Milford Mill Company owned a block of water-powered mills on Oldtown Falls (History of Penobscot County Maine 908). These water-powered saw mills had short connected dams, all of which were built from wood. The Milford Mill Company’s mills included: six single saw mills, four gang mills, one shingle mill, one clapboard mill, and four lath mills, all of which ran roughly seven months out of the year. The products of the mills were marketed in Bangor, arriving by both water and train (Wells 519). The Company leased out the land, mills, and buildings to different individuals and companies.
In 1880, the Milford Mill Company sold its seventeen thousand acres, including the mills to the Milford Lumbering and Manufacturing Company. Following the sale, the Milford Mill Company was dissolved (History of Penobscot County Maine 906).
Extent
4.5 linear feet (7 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Milford Mill Company records contain financial papers, land deeds, and lease agreements from the company’s activities in Milford, Maine.
Series List
SERIES I. Accounts, Invoices, Vouchers, and Receipts
SERIES II. Deeds and Leases
SERIES III. Other
Physical Location
Phillips Library Stacks
Provenance
This material was donated by Pingree family heirs.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Hilary Streifer, December 17, 2015.
Subject
- Coe, Ebenezer Smith, 1814-1899 (Person)
- Pingree, David, 1795-1863 (Person)
- Winn, John (Person)
- Goodwin, J. W. (Person)
- Pingree, David, 1841-1932 (Person)
- Simpson, Lewis (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- MILFORD MILL COMPANY RECORDS, 1828-1901, undated
- Author
- Processed by: Hilary Streifer; machine-readable finding aid created by: Hilary Streifer.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was funded by gifts from Pingree heirs.
Repository Details
Part of the Phillips Library Repository