Episode 3

[chris pearson]

Hope this isn’t a repeat!

 

[Todd F]

Hold on...grabbing a beer, looks lie a good one!

 

[Todd F]

well done sir, well done.

 

[dmd421]

Great job Chris and Kent. Very interesting. Maybe post the 1st and 2nd here in case others have missed them. (Wish the volume was a little louder.)

 

[Dave Wermuth]

Awesomeness!!

 

[Benson Gray]

Good job, I do have two minor comments. Jerry Stelmok made an eight-foot model with sponsons for Tom Thornton’s museum many years ago. Tom has died, the museum is closed, and most of the stuff was sold off so I don’t know where it is now.

George Gray identified himself as a merchant of hardwood as shown in the 1900 census record below. He regularly organized logging crews, and the Old Town Canoe company was one of his customers. The canoe company got more involved in logging with the 1910 purchase of Carleton Canoe which included a sawmill and woodlands. This saved them during the Second World War when their usual lumber sources were all redirected to the war effort. The last woodlands were sold in 1966 as described at the link below in more detail.

Benson

Thread 'Woodlands of the Old Town Canoe Company'

Dec 7, 2023

Many unusual questions have come up during my research about the Old Town Canoe Company but no one has yet asked me exactly where the wood used to build the canoes originated. I may have found an answer. The purchase of the Carleton Canoe Company and saw mill in 1910 included several wood lots. They continued to add woodlands through the 1930s. This allowed them to operate during the Second World War when all other lumber was being directed to the military efforts. The Penobscot county deed in book 1912 and page 369 shows that the State of Maine took 44.86 acres of this land in...

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