Veneer and Box Mills, Stockholm, ME. 22

Veneer and Box Mills, Stockholm, ME. 22

Veneer and Box Mills, Stockholm, ME. looking north on the road leading to the mill buildings; one several stories with three smoke stacks. In 1902 Warren Trafton and Allen Quimby purchased 20 acres of lots and formed the Standard Veneer Company and built a veneer mill in Stockholm. In 1909 it became the Standard Box Company. The mill burnt in 1912 but was immediately rebuilt and prospered through the 1920s. It closed in the 1930s. By the time 1904 came they were shipping two cars of product each week. The company also ran a starch factory from 1904 though 1909. Later it was converted to a Box Company that made cleated plywood boxes for phonograph companies. Another company was built to make clothes pins, peavey and pick–pole handles, whiffle–trees, snowshoes and perforated chair seats. Then it was a lumber mill. This company also had its own store called the Veneer Hall which was used for movies and dances and meetings and church services.