Records, 1846-1942.

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Records, 1846-1942.

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A small collection of records concerning the Grand Lake Dam, in Township 6 Range 8 of Penobscot County, Maine. Included is a copy of Chapter 388, An Act to incorporate the Grand Lake Dam Company, approved by the State of Maine on August 7, 1846. Also included are 12 photographs of the Grand Lake Dam in 1942 with George H. Hamlin in some of the photographs taken by Paul F. Kruse, Chief Engineer at the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company.

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Kruse, Paul F.

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Grand Lake Dam Company (Me.).

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The Grand Lake Dam Company was incorporated by the State of Maine in 1846. John Goddard, James Perkins, Rufus Dwinel, and E.S. Coe were authorized to construct and maintain a dam in Township 6 Range 8 in Penobscot County to control the flow of Grand Lake in order to facilitate the transportation of logs and lumber across the lake and down the Penobscot River. The act also gave the company the right to collect tolls on the logs and lumber which passed through the sluiceway. ...

Hamlin, George Beals, 1834-

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George H. Hamlin, the son of Wellington and Philena Robinson Hamlin, was born in Sidney, Maine, on November 18, 1850. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1873 and served the university from 1873 to 1898 as a professor in several fields: drawing and field engineering, mathematics and drawing and civil engineering. He was also treasurer of the university from 1889-1896, librarian from 1884-1889, and one of the founders of the Alumni Association in 1875. After leaving the university, he wa...