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The Bethel Journals Donald G. Bennett, PO Box 763, Bethel, Maine 04217 |
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The Bethel Journals |
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Bethel Maine History May 21, 2013
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History News People Places Events
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Bethel area history - an online collections of publications and photos |
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Clark Edwards |
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Margaret Tibbetts |
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SUNDAY RIVER
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1886 Journal—Bethel Chair Factory approved, building begins; Col Clark Edwards is Democrat’s candidate for Governor; Bethel had 22 school districts. 1887 Journal—Voters OK town school system to replace districts; deaths of Dr. N.T. True and Rev David Garland. 1888 Journal—Last corn canning year for NY importers Wolff and Reesing; Bethel village water system planning begun; Rumford steam boat reaches Bethel and returns; Bethel votes for Benj. Harrison for President. 1889 Journal—Wyman brothers of Millbridge, ME, purchased corn canning factory from Wolff and Reesing; town votes $2,500 to build new corn canning factory. State legislature charters Bethel Village Corp. and Bethel Water Company. 1890 Journal—Bethel village water system installed from Chapman Brook to the village; Wyman’s beginning corn canning in new location by railroad; Bethel Water Co. ready to provide fire protection in village. Click Rebuild to read more about the quick response to restoring the church in 1891’s Journal, Part 2 Links to more Journals and Citizen Annual News Reviews
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1891 Bethel Fair Riverside Trotting Park and Bethel Agricultural Fair opened with great success on land leased from Moses A Mason Bethel Agricultural Fair and Riverside Park by Yvonne Nowlin Henry Boyker (1878-1961) Bethel selectman; Maine legislator; Bethaven Inn and 190-1934 Bethel Fair owner Jacob A Thurston (1843-1917) Errol, Newry then Bethel; Thurston Farm now River View Resort The Mason Farm Home to three generations; now identified by the Norseman Inn and old fair grounds barn
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Riverside Farms –dairy, milk route; pasteurized, homogenized milk Thurston Farm 1950s most modern dairy barn Bethel Regional Airport In operation since 1945 David Garland, Rev. (1815-1887) Only pastor of Mayville’s 2d Congregational Church; died in pulpit of First Congr. Ch. Bethel Riverside Cemetery First burial Curatio Twitchell, 1791; adopted by 2d Congregation until 1890; Riverside Cemetery Assoc from 1904 Mayville area maps—1858, 1880 and 1914
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Bethel Village historic images—The Common—created about 1800 by the village founder, Eleazer Twitchell, it was deeded to the West Parish for public use in 1823 More images and story click Common |
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Bryant’s Market on Main Street, Bethel was a four generation meat and grocery business dating from 1876 to 1968. Click Bryant’s Market to read the story. |
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Bethel House Lovejoy House Chapman House—The Elms |
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Chandler House Valentine’s Spring Grove Farm |
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Stephen Spurgeon (S.S.) Abbot, John Barker , Jarvis C. (J.C.) Billings, Calvin Bisbee , Samuel A. Brock , James H. Barrows, Alpheus S. (A.S.) Bean, Gilman P. Bean, Nathaniel F. Brown, (1843-1917). Abiel Chandler, Jr., (1837 – 1898), T.A. (Timothy Appleton) Chapman , Timothy H. Chapman, William Rogers Chapman , Col Clark S. Edwards, William Russell (W.R.) Eames, Col Clark S. Edwards, Henry Farwell , Hon. Enoch Foster, 1839-1913, Rev. David Garland (1815-1887) , Dr. John G. Gehring , Samuel F. Gibson, Alvan B. Godwin, Albert Wellington (A.W.) Grover, (1841 – 1908 , Gideon A. Hastings, 65 in 1886, John Decatur (J.D.) Hastings, in 1886 age 61 , Addison E. Herrick, age 39 in 1886, lawyer , Eben Shaw Kilborn , Charles Mellen (Chas. M) Kimball, William B. Lapham, (1828 – 1894) , Elmer L. Lovejoy (1862 - ?) , William F. Lovejoy , Moses Ayers Mason, (1826 – 1904). , Enoch W. Woodbury , John M. Philbrook , Samuel Delano (S.D.) Philbrook, ,William E. Skillings (1843-1910), Jacob A. Thurston (1843-1917) , Joshua G. Rich ,1820-1897 , Dr. Nathaniel T. True, (1812 – 1887) , Calvin Turner , Samuel Barker (S.B.) Twitchell, (1829 – 1905) , Horatio N. Upton, Alfred Wilber (A.W.) Valentine , Seth Walker, Goodwin R. Wiley , Cyrus M. Wormell,
Click Names in the News for brief profiles of the people listed above.
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Click for links to > Recent Postings Dates in Bethel History Maps Contact the Journals, About the Bethel Journals |
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INDUSTRIES
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1958 Headline News Wildcat Ski Area opens—Sunday River Skiway Corp created—Barker Mt trails laid out—skating rink at Crescent Park school—Bethel Furniture Stock opens Bethel Area Development Corp formed |
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1940, Hanover Co. Buys Stowell Mill February 1, 1940
The Hanover Dowel Co. deal follows some two months negotiations following the destruction of the company’s mill at Hanover by fire on the afternoon of Nov. 25. |
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December 22, 1911
“Maple Inn is the sign at the new house opened on Main Street. Mr. and Mrs. Kilgore formerly of Poplar Tavern, Newry, are the landlord and landlady”
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1950’s photo |
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Bethel’s Aviation History, Progress and Development
Around 1925 two men came to Bethel on “barnstorming” tours. One was William Turgeon, who kept his plane on a field near the Lincoln Cummings house, Vernon Street. Eva Bean, “East Bethel Road” |
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Huge celebration and huge crowd |
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In 1966, the Bethel Historical Society was established to collect, organize, interpret and publish all forms of historical material dealing with not only the Town of Bethel but the surrounding region. Due to continuing widespread support and interest it has grown to be one of the most respected institutions devoted to history in Maine.
This journal is almost wholly dependent on the Bethel Historical Society’s archival collections as sources for its articles. |
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