Oral history interview, 1974.

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Oral history interview, 1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70955558

Interview, with catalog, from Augusta, Me., with Thurlow, president of Central Maine Power Company, about power companies and power.

1 audiotape (1 1/2 hr.)

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History, Maine Folklife Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 8051117

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Franklin, Lynn (Singer)

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Thurlow, E. W.

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Central Maine Power Company

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Central Maine Power Company (CMP) was founded in 1899 when Harvey D. Eaton, an attorney from Waterville, Maine, and Walter S. Wyman, an engineer, bought the Oakland Electric Company. This company, organized in 1887, owned a hydroelectric generator which provided street lighting and electricity to the community of Oakland, Maine. Eaton and Wyman recognized early on the potential for generating electricity that Maine's rivers provided. The company acquired small hydroelectric companies and develop...