Records, 1846-1966 (bulk 1846-1920).

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Records, 1846-1966 (bulk 1846-1920).

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The records of a logging company in Maine. Included are copies of the incorporation papers of 1846, financial papers of the company from 1903 to 1919, statements of tolls, minutes of meetings, correspondence, and tax papers. Included also are two copies of a document Telos Lake, from Report of Land Agent of Maine of 1841, printed by order of Senate of January 14, 1840. Included also is a map of the Upper St. John River; two copies of a newspaper clipping from the Bangor Daily News (Aug. 22, 1963) about the Telos Dam; a reprint of The Telos Cut, by Lore A. Rogers, from the May 1966 issue of The Northern Logger; a carbon copy of The Telos Cut, by Myron H. Avery (22, vii pages); The Telos Canal: a lumberman's canal near Moosehead Lake, Maine, which diverts the water from the Allagash to the Penobscot (dated 1928); and photographs of the Telos and Lock Dams taken on or about May 18, 1942.

2 folders.1 folio folder.

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Rogers, Lore A.

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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...

Telos Canal Company (Bangor, Me.)

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In the 1830s Amos Roberts and Hastings Strickland obtained control of a piece of land that contained the drainages into two major watersheds. These were Webster Lake, a headwater of the East Branch of the Penobscot River, and Telos Lake, which in its natural state was a headwater of the Allagash River. It was decided to build a canal between Telos and Webster Lakes so logs could be moved from Chamberlain Lake and into Telos Lake and then into the East Branch basin. By fall 1841 dams...

Avery, Myron H. 1899-1952.

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