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    Lincoln Dam, Dennysville, Maine

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    Stonework on the Lincoln Dam across the Dennys River in Dennysville, Maine has survived over two hundred years and thirty years of weathering.

    Theodore Lincoln and a group of hardy men came to Township No. 2 in 1786 to harvest the timber and to use the waterpower to saw logs into boards. Bela and Christopher Dyer came to build a sawmill at the mill seat on the Dennys River at General Benjamin Lincoln bidding in 1787. The massive stones in the dam that they completed, though hidden now by summer foliage, are still solidly in place on either bank, reaching out to the hole was made when the dam was blown early on a Sunday morning in 1930.

    Lincoln Mill Pond, Dennys River
    Lincoln Dam in spring flood

    Lincoln Dam, Dennysville, Maine
    Another view of the Lincoln Dam, Dennysville, Maine Mill Dam on the Dennys River in winter, by John P. Sheahan; Image of the ice covered Lincoln Mill Dam on the Dennys River in Eastern Maine, taken by Dr. John P. Sheahan of Edmunds, c. 1885 Lincoln Dam in Winter, c. 1885; Image of the ice covered Lincoln Dam across the Dennys River, taken by John P. Sheahan around 1885. Lincoln Pond Dam in Dennysvlle, Maine; Water overflows the Lincoln Pond Dam on the Dennys River during a freshet, in a photograph by John P. Sheahan of Edmunds, Maine.