Collection, 1890-1994.

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Collection, 1890-1994.

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Maps, plans, aerial photographs and other materials collected by Johnson to document forest land use and logging in Maine, especially in areas near the Kennebec River and Moosehead Lake. Included are maps and records from Great Northern Paper Company, Hollingsworth & Whitney Company, Scott Paper Company and the Kennebec Log Driving Company as well as maps and plans from a wide variety of other sources.

2 boxes + 31 map folders.

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7952082

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Hollingsworth and Whitney Company

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Kennebec Log Driving Company

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Great Northern Paper Company

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Great Northern Paper Company began with construction of a mill in Millinocket, Maine, in 1899, followed by the acquisition of an existing mill at Madison, Maine, and the construction of a third mill in East Millinocket in 1906. The company's timberland holdings reached over 2 million acres in the 1940s; in addition it owned dams and hydroelectric stations including Dolby and Ripogenus dams, farms, a hotel, and several vessels. In 1970 the company merged with Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Co. to become G...

Johnson, Marc A., 1944-2006,

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Marc A. Johnson was born Feb. 11, 1944 in New Britain, Conn. He graduated from the University of Connecticut with a B.S. in forestry in 1967 and from the University of New Hampshire with an M.S. in forestry in 1971. He worked at Scott Paper Co. in Waterville, Maine, and in real estate and forestry, later becoming president of Skylark, Inc. He also had a forestry consultant business and was an accomplished photographer and woodcarver and a historian of the log drives in Maine. Marc Johnson died N...

Scott Paper Company

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The Scott Paper Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania on December 21, 1905, as successor to the Scott Paper Company, Ltd., organized in October 1879. The company pioneered the manufacture and marketing of toilet paper and paper towels. The company was founded in Philadelphia by the brothers Clarence and E. Irwin Scott as a general wholesale jobbing business in coarse paper products such as wrapping paper and paper bags. The company soon carved out a niche cutting and ...