Records, 1846-1975 (bulk 1846-1970)

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Records, 1846-1975 (bulk 1846-1970)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61321577

Business and financial records of the Katahdin Iron Works, an iron producing company located near Brownville Junction, Maine; its successor the Piscataquis Iron Works; and records of Prentiss & Carlisle generated while managing the timberland owned by the Iron Works. Included are correspondence, legal documents, property inventories, reports, invoices, receipts, production records, purchasing records, and photographs of the site and its structures from 1925 to 1974.

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Raymond H. Fogler Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7803759

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Prentiss and Carlisle Company.

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Pingree, David, 1795-1863

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Katahdin Iron Works.

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The Katahdin Iron Works was incorporated in 1846 by David Pingree of Salem, Massachusetts, and Samuel E. Coues, Charles H. Ladd, John L. Hayes, and Alexander H. Ladd, all of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Pingree ran the company until his death.The blast furnace ran only between 1846 and 1856, when operation of the iron works became uneconomical and it was shut down. From 1857 until Pingree died in 1863, the iron works was unoccupied. After Pingree's death the executors of his estate so...

Piscataquis Iron Works.

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