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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) Lavonia, Merrill was...

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. Heebner,...