On Jan. 6, 1928, a bronze memorial plaque on the front of the GNP administration building was unveiled in honor of Garret Schenck. The unveiling took place on the day of his funeral in Weston, Massachusetts. The plaque reads “To Garret Schenck, Founder and for Thirty Years President of the Great Northern Paper Company. He Planned and Constructed the Paper Mills at Millinocket, East Millinocket, East Madison and Madison, adding Much That Was Original in the Development of the

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum                         Millinocket, Penobscot County Maine, population 2500, January 1904. This information is on page one of a map book by the Sanborn Map Company of New York. This book and three more are in the collection of the Millinocket Historical Society. The 1904 book shows the layout of the downtown area with street names and information regarding water facilities and fire protection.

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM!        By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum             Shack Hill, Society Hill, Across the Tracks, New Development…words used to describe various sections of Millinocket through the years. And don’t forget Little Italy directly opposite the mill across Millinocket Stream. This neighborhood began when John Merrill, supervisor of GNP mill construction, went to Boston to secure Italian contract labor. Through Marco (Lavogne) Lav

In the early, 1970’s, Marion Whitney Smith & husband Kingman Smith wrote weekly articles for the Katahdin Journal. The following bits of information are from those articles. The Smiths had been in Millinocket from about the 1930’s and they also interviewed older Millinocket locals.          The first “stores” in the new town were on the mill site and one was Kimballs’ General Store in the mill yard. (He later had a large store downtown.) Gonya Brothers Boots and Shoes and Wm.

Sixty-three years ago (March 1963), the Stearns High School Minutemen made basketball history!             Following are excerpts from some of the news articles about the games. March 16-17, Bangor Daily News sports page…Stearns, Morse Make New England Cage Bids Tonight. For the first time, Maine will send two teams to the event, Morse High School and Stearns High School…and both teams face major hurdles. Stearns faces a tougher assignment (than Morse)…but Stearns has display

As the U.S. was coming out of the Depression of the 1930’s, Millinocket saw new growth including a new post office and a new school. Under the leadership of Father Quinn, a funding campaign began for the construction of a Catholic parochial school, St. Martin of Tours school. It would be a brick structure located beside the St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church and be constructed mostly by volunteer labor. (At that time the original Catholic Church was where the parking area be