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    Tide Mill on Wilson's Stream, Townships No 2., c. 1805 (detail)

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    Detail showing early settlers along Wilson's Stream on a lot map of Townships No. 1 & 2, c. 1805, now Perry, Pembroke and Dennysville, Maine, including Farley, Page, Mayhew, McCabe, Dunn, Carter and others. The Tide Mill Company lot was located near the narrowing of the stream where Robert Wilson first built his tide mill in 1770's.

    In 1832 a double sawmill was erected on Wilson's Stream at a place called "the old mill site," by the Dennysville Tide Mill Company, a corporation that included Ebenezer C. Wilder, Daniel Kilby, William Kilby, Jr., John Kilby, Bela R. Reynolds, William Mayhew, Jr., and Ebenezer C. Wilder, Jr., with their associates and successors. In 1900 the bed pieces of the mill were still visible, as well as relics of the original structure.

    Dennysville Tide Mill Company Ledgers at Digital Maine Repository, UMaine.

    Map of early settlers on Wilson's Stream; Detail of a lot map of Townships No. 1 & 2, now Perry, Pembroke and Dennysville, Maine, c. 1805
    Site of Robert Wilson's Tide Mill, and later the Dennysville Tide Mill Company, on Hardscrabble River. Head of Tide at Wilson's Stream, Lower Dennysville, Maine; Viewed from the bridge on U.S. Route 1, Wilson's stream, know here also as Hardscrabble River, wends it way toward the Dennys Bay. The narrows visible in the distance were the site of several tide mills, the earliest know being that built by Robert Wilson around 1780. The point on the right was the location of the Lyon's Brothers steam mill in the early 20th century. Wilson's Stream and Ox Cove Road; Satellite image of Wilson's Stream and Ox Cove Road, accessed from Google earth 08-12-2023.