His product was shipped to all sections of the city and further. When the little ones told Snigger that her mother had fallen into the river, she said, I practically sunk to the floor.. In the mills, fellow workers were like family. Mar. Gibson as president, P.W. During spring log drives in the early 1900s, the mass of logs filling the Androscoggin could extend five miles upriver. On my first day, I walked into an office for directions. I even remember that our little family went to visit Mr. Brown at that time, at his residence in Berlin N.H. Do you have any documents referring to my mother? Wolcott, Marion Post, photographer. See More. The Toussaint Bakery was called home of the Butter Krust Bread and was producing over 45 thousand loaves of bread a week. To see her in this article and be able to share a story about her past with her Great Grandchildren is just the best feeling. John B. Add as many postcards as you like to the Cart and pay for them all at once when you are finished looking - you'll save 20% on all of them!andONE LOW SHIPPING CHARGE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD IS JUST $1.65 PER ORDER: If you want to buy more than one postcard from us, there is no need to pay for postcards individually (additional postcards ship for free). Enjoy! At first the mill had only threeor four paper machines, each of large capacities. They ask me, Jenny, why did you keep doing that hard, hard work for all those years?. At first they operated out of a one story building but in 1904 it was decided that they were to build a new two-story building. Add as many postcards as you like to the Cart and pay for them all at once when you are finished looking - you'll save 20% on all of them!andONE LOW SHIPPING CHARGE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD IS JUST $1.65 PER ORDER: If you want to buy more than one postcard from us, there is no need to pay for postcards individually (additional postcards ship for free). No. The bakery was started by G. Gunnerson in 1907. Take a couple of days if you like! Modern wax paper was used to ensure the freshness of his product.Bottom of Form, Berlin Manufacturing Company (image from Poof Tardiff). I say, What is this? I pick up a finger. What is fascinating to learn is the relationships that developed over the course of time the camp was in operation. Dr. Koop, after researching the POW camp and penning the history, arranged for a reunion between surviving prisoners and the families in Stark, on the 50th anniversary of the end of hostilities. The man was named Hermngilde Rousseau and was from St. Apollinaire, Canada. By 1917, the Berlin Mills Company, with three paper mills and 4,250,000 acres of timberland, was the largest pulp and paper manufacturer in the world. Other materials require appointments for later the same day or in the future. Loggers had a reputation for being rough but, Snigger said, many were fathers themselves and loved having children around. Bill, the youngest, lived in Berlin with Art until he finished high school. Anyway, I said, Geez, I hope theyll be able to save his arm. Sulphite plant in Berlin, New Hampshire, paper mill town inhabited largely by French-Canadians and Scandinavians. Transfer; United States. We done the cutting and he done the hauling out with the hosses on a scoot. When Mill B was built they ultimately had a production of twenty-five tons a day, such was considered to be a large amount under conditions in America at that time. Perhaps thats why we have so many satisfied repeat customers! They built a big skidway with a road underneath, so they could drive the big truck under and roll the logs onto it. Sulfite waste liquor and noxious pollutants caused the Androscoggin River to foam and smell. The next day, they called: Have you changed anything in the cooking process?, Well the pulp smells different. and Photographs Reading Room to view the original item(s). This plant closed in 1963. Cole (president), J. Howard Wight, A.H. Eastman, George W. Page, A.H. Gerrish, Lyman Cole, and L.D. By the early twentieth century the Berlin Mills Company changed its name during World War I to the Brown Company because the war in Germany. Permission for use, re-use, or additional use of the content is not required. Sulphite plant in Berlin, New Hampshire, paper mill town inhabited largely by French-Canadians and Scandinavians, Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer, - Both Mt. Today my wife and I visited Gorham and Berlin in NH . 0000001664 00000 n
The Hezekiah Winslow and Companys Sawmill, also known simply as H. Winslow and Company, contained one gang and two single saws with a maximum daily capacity of about 25,000 feet of long lumber. By the mid 1920s, Bermico went into the production of drainage pipes for coal mines. I wasnt getting enough softwood chips in the mix. Forest and the two Mills of the Forest Fibre Company can be seen in the lower right-hand corner (Image from Beyond Brown Paper archives), The Berlin Shoe Factory (Image from Poof Tardiff). The loggers, the truck drivers, the inventors, the mill workers all spent their money locally, supporting local businesses from bars to bowling alleys. site.). Item: 224336567716 When I started, the towel room had just two machines. To ensure a respectful dialogue, please refrain from posting content that is unlawful, harassing, discriminatory, libelous, obscene, or inflammatory. The river foamed. During the entire operation of this camp, all prisoners worked for the Brown Paper Company - a considerable wealth of free labor. The first story would be the machine shop and the second would be the working department. Mr. Burgess was known for his kind hart and helped this city out a lot and he was also a graduate of Harvard University. Burgess as general manager and treasurer. Around the same time the Berlin Mills Company became the Brown Company, due to the war against Germany. Duplication Services Web site. I was so happy to come across this article. Ships to: WORLDWIDE, My last job at the mill was cooking the wood. Mr. Brown also owned the J.B. Brown Sugar Factory in Portland, Maine. - Its chronicled in a book written by Allen V. Koop (history professor at Dartmouth) entitled Stark Decency. Forest products. This photo was taken in 1897, the same year Berlin became a city. The first Cross Machine Shop was owned by Mr. E.M. Cross and was on Glen Ave. somewhere around the area of todays Cross Machine Shop. Overseas Picture Division. Rebecca Rule gathers and tells stories. The computer will keep track of all your purchases and charge you just one low shipping charge when you are finished looking and ready to pay. However, Get Archive LLC does not own each component of the compilation displayed and accessible on the PICRYL website and applications. Numbers tell a lot about the logging and paper industry: 60 cents for a meal at the logging camp, 700 men and 2,500 horses in the woods around Lake Parmachenee in western Maine, more than 20,000 populating the city of Berlin in its heyday, most employed by Brown Company or providing services (grocers, barbers, teachers) to the mill workers and their families. Womens rights were slow to come to the Brown Paper Company, but they made it. Helen Burns, a logger, told about the time she saved a mans life: We was up in Jefferson cutting on government land. 20,181+ items sold. | Photo: Courtesy of the Brown Company Collection, Plymouth State University, Northern Woodlands All rights reserved | site by, . tqX)I)B>==
9. Brown came here with a vision, Caouette said. Though long retired, she still got together with colleagues for a weekly meal. The small white building shown above was used as a storehouse for oats and corn. Film copy on SIS roll 6, frame 1057. I am looking for maps of Brown Paper Company around field #1 about 1970, my dad took me hunting in this area and we camped there, I would like to take my son there if I can find it. Ask A Librarian service or call the reading room between 8:30 and 0000004686 00000 n
"Peanuts at Laboratory, May 14, 1927" Shawano, Florida, A postcard of the Forest Fibre Company (Image from Poof Tardiff). On June 2, 1904 an alarm was sounded shortly after eight oclock in the evening. You didnt think anything of it at the time, but I did think of it in years later. img {max-width: 100%;} BERLIN NH Burgess Sulphite Paper Mill This old white border postcard is in good condition (there are corner impressions, a small upper left corner bend and some soiling). There were two two shingle machines and two clapboard machines at the right of the mill proper. Wish I could find a way to share it here! Locke purchased land near where the Dead River met the Androscoggin Riverfrom Daniel Green. Its been this way for about five years now. By the end of World War II, the famous Bermico sewer pipe was added to the Bermico line. It was a rough way, but that was our lives at that time. We werent allowed axes, but buck saws, yes., Asked if it was a dangerous life, she said, My mother gave us a scare once. To cross the river, a boat was rigged with cables and pulleys, so a person could pull it from one side to the other. Office of War Information. They erected the first mill, Mill A, in July of1877 and the second, Mill B, in 1880. The Toussaint Bakery was the idea of Mr. Edouard Toussaint who came to Berlin in 1881. We were curious, were they really doing a smell test? I love the story about the history of the mill. Mother cooked, father logged, she and her siblings grew up in the logging camps. Just add 3 or more postcards to your cart (you need to press the "Add To Cart" button rather than the "Buy It Now" button to get the discount). The loss was estimated at $5,000 which was a lot back in 1904. Today the Browns Farm wetlands preserve now takes the place of Shawano. note: usf34batch6. the original in color by citing the Call Number listed above and including the catalog 0000001510 00000 n
This was the mentality. An ATV park attracts tourists, so thats good for business. Yates, all of these men were once active business men in Berlin. Unlike theInternational Paper Company, the Brown Company appeared to have avoided economic disaster in the early 1930s but in the 1940s that all went downhill. In 1853, the company built the first part of their Company Store (later called Brown Company Store) and a large boarding house, now known as the Brown Company House. United States Coos County Berlin New Hampshire, 1940. If he would have said to call him Clarence, I would have, but he never did. Copyright 2008-2022 PicClick Inc. All Rights Reserved. | Photo: Rebecca Rule, Ola Oleson and his mother, Norma. Boy, when I let them logs go, that whole skidway come down through there. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller. It was situated on the side of the tracks of the Grand Trunk, just before the Green Street trestle. They came to Berlin for work and they found it. He worked for the Furbish Mill for a few years and was successful in the lumbering business under the name of Guay and Toussaint. (Image from www.gsavard.home.comcast.net), The Cascade Mill (Image from Beyond Brown Paper archives). The Brown Co. decided to name this new department Bermico after the old name of this company. xc```c```3XXc 281L@V The Berlin Mills Company wanted to expand its business. Title and other information from caption card. Her collection of short stories, The Best Revenge, was named one of five essential New Hampshire Books by New Hampshire Magazine. My grandfather, William H. Palmer, was the finishing room superintendent at Cascade when he retired in 1947-9. Ola's father, Alton, worked as a logger. Businessman W. W. Brown took notice, and in 1868 he established the Berlin Mills Company, later Brown Paper, in Berlin. Perhaps thats why we have so many satisfied repeat customers! You might be running an 11-story boiler that could wipe out half the city. Pulp soaked in water and a certain percentage of sulphite added there to is then passed through the paper machine, a great mass of machinery in which the moist pulp passing over felts and screens and between warm cylinders and over various appliances for drying out the water, finally comes out at the other end of the machine in the form of a wide sheet of pure white paper, ten feet wide, on the largest machine in the Glen mills and is wound up in a great roll ready for the printing press, at the rate of about three hundred feet per minute. Another woman described how heart wrenching it was to watch the mills go. ", Railway Connections of the first Sawmill (image from Brown Bulletin), Berlin Mills Company Sawmill in the year 1870 (Image from Beyond Brown Paper archives), Berlin Mills Co. sawmill after the fire of 1897 (Photo from Brown Bulletin), This photo is from an old Brown Bulletin. Mar. The purpose of this company was to manufacture lumber products, such as making cabinets and other general carpentry jobs. Jefferson Street Viaduct, Spanning Des Moines River at U.S. Highway 63/34, Ottumwa, Wapello County, IA, Houses and small farms in the Montville, Connecticut area, Holyoke Bridge, Spanning Connecticut River, between Holyoke & South Hadley Falls, Holyoke, Hampden County, MA, Sulphite plant in Berlin, New Hampshire, paper mill town inhabited largely by French-Canadians and Scandinavians, Berlin, New Hampshire, paper mill town inhabited largely by French-Canadians and Scandinavians, Berlin, New Hampshire, paper mill town inhabited largely by French Canadians and Scandinavians. This is a view from the old sawmill on December 5, 1889, The Berlin Mills Company Sawmill in the 1880's, Berlin Mills Co. sawmill in the early 1890's (Photo from Brown Bulletin), The Brown Company sawmill from the "Andy" endstream
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stream Medora Snigger worked most of her adult life in the mills. Your choice - Pay with Paypal or your credit card! $O./ 'z8WG x 0YA@$/7z HeOOT _lN:K"N3"$F/JPrb[}Qd[Sl1x{#bG\NoX3I[ql2 $8xtr p/8pCfq.Knjm{r28?. But when they opened the cover, like a clam steamer, all that haze and mist would come out. Click the purchase button, and then press the Continue Shopping with This Seller button or simply exit and come back later. The air for miles around smelled as well. (Image from Poof Tardiff), Glen Mill No. Mr. Locke built a three-ton pulp mill. In any case, they talked and I listened. Well, I grabbed a cant dog and drove it into the log he was holding onto, held the logs back til he could pull himself out of the way. They built their first mill which the town voted to exempt from taxation for a term of ten years. No education. The bulk of the switchover occurred in 1950s (although one mill, the Burgess Sulphite mill, continued operating until 1963). When the mills shut down in 2001, 860 workers were laid off. In 1898 the Glen Manufacturing Company was bought out by the International Paper Mill. View Online Exhibition, Check out the Society's new social studies curriculum and website for Granite State kids, educators, parents, and everyone who enjoys learning about New Hampshire. My mother and father both went to Berlin High School. A 225-foot ship, the Itororo, hauled pulp wood down the St. Lawrence to Quebec City, where it went on to Berlin by rail. The Berlin Aqueduct Company placed a fire hydrant near the mill to protect it from fire, but it seems like nothing can stop natures furry. the Prints and Photographs Reading Room. Theyd boil a T-bone steak. Men vied not to work at those camps. It was bad. Learn More, Take an in-depth look at one of the most prolific White Mountain artists
The World's Largest Public Domain Media Search Engine, Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer, No known restrictions. This area of town was called Glen Village. This building was one of the first mills to be lighted through the night by forty-one of Edisons incandescent electric lights. If you do not see a thumbnail image or a reference to another surrogate, please fill out a call slip in In the beginning, all the trees were cut by hand and hauled or twitched out of the woods by horses. There is a little known chapter that could be added to this article that covers this fascinating history of paper production in northern New England. The wood operations became increasingly mechanized as the company tried to streamline. In, 1826, Thomas Green also erected the first sawmill but was not successful. During World War II, a prisoner-of-war camp was constructed in Stark, NH, to house German prisoners. Moose on the Loose: Social Studies for Granite State Kids, Bird's eye view of the White Mountains giving the altitude above the sea level and names of all moun. This area of land was known as the Thomas Green Privilege. For home games, we always prayed for a downdraft.. The mission seemed fairly urgent, with the old mill buildings being demolished day by day, many people out of work, many leaving the city. At the time of the photo, the sawmill contained three gang saws and one circular saw, which were later replaced by band saws. When I cross the bridge and look down river, theres so much gone. Great seller with very good positive feedback and over 50 ratings. Testing the biomass plant, September 8, 2013. For permission to reproduce this image, please add the image to your cart and proceed through the Image Request checkout process. I said to hell with this. I have so much respect for my Grandmother Helen L. Burns and miss her terribly. They had also erected many cottage houses which were rented to their employees making what is locally known as Glen Village, and in countless ways they have contributed directly and indirectly to the prosperity of this town. Alternatively, you can purchase copies of various types through The Glen Manufacturing Company came to Berlin in 1885 and purchased the privilege locally known as the Great Pitch privilege of Daniel Green. Brown, Josiah S. Little, Nathan Winslow, and Hezekiah Winslow, aformer sea captain, bought land to built a small sawmill and dam on the same site where, in 1826, Thomas Green of Shelburne tried to build his sawmill but failed do to a storm. Thanks, John. Not only was the work hard, it was dangerous. Brown, one of the original owners of the H. Winslow & Company. Enjoy! They put me in the tube mill. Maybe not in my lifetime, but it will come back.. We entered on Success Pond Road. Glen Mill No. *Members receive a 10% discount on all image reproduction. 0000001620 00000 n
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This photo shows what the Brown Company mill looked like in the 1950's (Image from Beyond Brown Paper archives). Pull him out of the machine. From a small beginning, Mr. Gunnerson built a large and flourishing business, calling his product Starcream Bread. But nobody says, Thank you, Mr. Brown. Whats sad is 200 years of heritage and paper making history are gone., Berlin will come back, the people say. Holly, New Jersey in 1962. Just add 3 or more postcards to your cart (you need to press the "Add To Cart" button rather than the "Buy It Now" button to get the discount). The Norwegians came first. PICRYL makes the world's public domain media easy to find and convenient to use.Get Archive LLC, creator of PICRYL, endeavors to provide information that it possesses on the copyright status of the content and to identify any other terms and conditions that may apply to the use of the content, however, Get Archive LLC offers no guarantee or assurance that all pertinent information is provided, or that the information is correct in each circumstance. As you walk its streets you still hear, among the Yankee drawls, the precise intonations of second-generation Lebanese, musical French and Italian inflections, the hint of an Irish brogue, Norwegian lilts.
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