From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Damat Kaler's Mill Belfast Me.
"Dam at Kaler's Mill, Belfast Me." Dam Currently, Wescott Stream passes beneath Kaler Road on the east side of Belfast, suggesting that Kaler's Mill is the one described below. At the outlet of the Wescott stream, Joseph H. Kaler had a plaster-mill, the plaster-rock being shipped from Nova Scotia. According to the report of the wealth and industries of Maine for 1874, the water-power was 30-horse; stock used, stone plaster, 800 tons; valuation, $1,800; production, 800 tons; men employed, 4; wages during the year, $1,000; average weekly wages, $12; seven months of the year in operation; market, Maine, Boston, and the Southern States. This mill, which was established in 1843, occupies the exact site of the saw-mill which Mitchell erected in 1770.
