Veneer Mill, Stockholm, ME. 28X

Veneer Mill, Stockholm, ME. 28X

The Veneer Mill, Stockholm, ME. with road across the river to the buildings; a water tower is seen at the left of mill. In 1902, the Standard Veneer Co. (Warren Trafton and Allen Quimby) purchased 20 acres of lot #36 from the Burleighs. By the middle of 1904, they were shipping two cars of product each week. The company also ran a starch factory from 1904 to 1909, when it was converted to the Standard Box Company which made cleated plywood boxes for phonograph companies. Trafton and Quimby in 1906 were the officers of the new Winterville Veneer Company, which was dismantled in 1910 and re-erected in Stockholm, with the companies merged to become the Allen Quimby Company. The mill burned February 1912 but was quickly rebuilt. Another plant was built in the early 1920's to make clothespins, peavey and pick-pole handles, whiffle-trees, snowshoes and perforated chair seats. It was later converted to a long lumber mill. The Veneer company also had its own store and the Veneer Hall, which was used for movies and dances and meetings and church services. In 1905, Lewis Whitten held the record for hauling the largest load (11 tons) of birch logs 6 miles to the mill with one pair of horses! Nevertheless, the next year, the new steam log hauler made its first trip to the woods, followed by many more!