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    Views of the Lincoln Mill Pond, summer and winter

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    Complementary views of the Lincoln Mill Pond, as it appeared in both summer and winter, as viewed from Cemetery Road in Dennysville, Maine.

    Lincoln Mill Pond on the Dennys river

    Mill Pond of the Dennys River, after 1907; Logs float placidly in the mill pond, once owned by the Lincoln family but, sold to the Dennysville Lumber Company in 1894. The tall stack of the waste burner was installed on the Edmunds side of the river after a disastrous fire left the mill beside the river in ashes in April, 1907.
    Skaters on the Dennys River Mill Pond.; Image of the Lincoln's frozen mill pond, with the mills , before 1907. The two large buildings on the river were sold to the Dennysville Lumber Company in 1894, while the smaller buildings to the left housed the box and novelty mill, and a grist mill, both of which burned and were replaced in September of 1907. Views of the Lincoln Mill Pond, summer and winter picture number 3 Lincoln Mill Pond in Summer; Image of the mills on the Dennys River before 1907, when A.L.R. Gardner's Grist and saw mills beside the River destroyed in a fire in April of that year. Image reproduced from Lincoln Mill and Mill Pond on the Dennys River, 1881; Detail for a map of Dennysville Village from the Colby Atlas of 1881 showing the mills and houses along the Dennys River, when the businesses were still owned by the Lincoln family in 1881.