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    Mill House, Built by Theodore Lincoln Jr., Dennysville, Maine

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    Photograph of the Theodore Lincoln Mill House in Dennysville, Maine, with a view of the millpond and Lumber mills and millpond on the Dennys River, bult between 1823 and 1835. For many years the owner of this house was responsible for managing the mills on the Dennys River.

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    Theodore Lincoln, Jr., after marrying his cousin Elizabeth, lived in the house a half-mile upriver from his father's place, called the Mill House. The old part of the house was built in 1823, and the large, two-story front section in 1835. It was in the ell of this house that Elizabeth Rice conducted a school before marrying Theodore Jr.'s brother, Bela Lincoln. This stately residence, which overlooked the river and mills was erected when 4,000 feet of pine boards could be purchased of $34.00; 2,000 feet of hewn timber for rafters, $10.00, 30,000 shingles shaved, $86.65; 14 locks, $28.00, 1,800 clapboards, $27.00; or 5 gal. oil and 100lb. white lead, $11.00. Both laborers and oxen received $1.00 per day during construction. Thomas Steadman painted the outside for $30.00. Theodore Jr. and Elizabeth's son Benjamin became the next owners of the house, raising five children with his wife Deborah (Gardner). Their daughter Sarah, who inherited the property, sold it to the Dennysville Lumber Company as a residence for their manager, John Higgins.

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    Lincoln Mills on the Dennys River

    Mill House, Built by Theodore Lincoln Jr., Dennysville, Maine picture number 1
    Mill House, Dennysville, Maine; Side view of the Mill House with ell and woodshed attached on the back. Mill House and buildings around Lincoln Mills and Dam on the Dennys River in 1861; Detail of Dennysville Village with houses and businesses located adjacent to the Lincoln Mills and Dam on the Dennys river, from the Washington County Topographical Atlas of 1861. Teh Edmunds side of the river is shaded green. Lincoln Mills and Mill Pond, with adjacent buildings and houses in 1881; Benjamin, son of Theodore Jr, and Elizabeth Lincoln is living in the Mill House on this detail of the village map of Dennysville from the Colby Atlas of Washington County, published in 1881. The Mill House in 1980; Photographed by Frank Beard for the Maine Historic Preservation Commission for documentation of the nomination of the village of Dennysville as a National Historic District.