Dam at Stockholm, Maine 1435

Dam at Stockholm, Maine 1435

Dam on Madawaska Stream at Stockholm, Maine, with mill buildings along the upper river above the dam. In 1900 though 1901 the dam was created to be able to send large logs down the river to send them right to the lumber company. The lumber company would cut trees into smooth slabs and send them to stores. The company built a boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row Street for their workers' families, a stable and two barns. In 1902 the company had 150 workers working with a daily output of fifty thousand shingles and fifteen thousand different types of lumber a day.