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Lumber is loaded onto schooners in Machias for transport to New York. The film was originally silent, with a typed script which Ames read aloud when he showed the film. In 1985, with funds from the Maine Humanities Council, the narration was recorded with the film. [2] The film was distributed by Northeast Historic Film, in Bucksport, Maine.
Port Gamble lumber mill, 1904. Pope & Talbot, Inc. was a lumber company and shipping company founded by Andrew Jackson Pope and Frederic Talbot in 1849 in San Francisco, California. Pope and Talbot came to California in 1849 from East Machias, Maine. Pope & Talbot lumber company was very successful, with the high demand of the 1849 Gold Rush ...
A sash and door factory was added to the mill complex by 1909, [2] and the company was reorganized as the Hammond Lumber Company in 1912. [3] Hammond Lumber Company built an emergency shipyard during World War I, and seven wooden steam-ships were built at Samoa between 1917 and 1919.[14] The 1921-22 Belcher Atlas of Humboldt County breaks down ...
Frederic Hovey Talbot (February 26, 1819 - December 20, 1907) was an American businessman, and one of the founders of the Pope & Talbot, Inc. lumber company.. He was born in East Machias, Maine, the son of Peter Talbot III and Eliza Chaloner.
Jeremiah was the eldest son of Irish immigrants Morris and Mary O'Brien. He was born in Kittery, District of Maine in 1744. His family moved to Scarborough, Maine and settled in Machias, Maine in the 1760s to engage in lumbering. They owned two sawmills. Maine was a part of Massachusetts at the time. [2]
Built as Hammond Lumber Company #5 for service in Mill City, Oregon; moved to Samoa and renumbered in 1931; sold to Crown Willamette in 1937 [7] 15 Baldwin Locomotive Works: 2-8-2: 1916 originally Humbird Lumber Company #4 of Sandpoint, Idaho; became Hammond Lumber Company #15 in 1941; put on display in Eureka, California's Sequoia Park in 1960 ...
Nicknamed "Hammond's Folly," she nevertheless was a commercial success when she arrived on the U.S. West Coast from the Virginia shipyard where she was built. [2] In 1905 alone, Francis H. Leggett and her sister ship Arctic netted Hammond $62,000 in profit, more than the profit of some of his timber operations.
Machias Bay is a bay in Washington County, Maine that opens into the Gulf of Maine. [1] The bay was the scene of the Battle of Machias — the first naval battle of the American Revolution , occasioned by the British need for lumber for Boston .