Inside Highlights:

Events schedule…..page 3

A Year without Summer…..page 7

Greenwood Mines & Minerals…..page 12

Greenwood Bicentennial

1816-2016

The Locke’s Mills train station served the Grand Trunk Railway and was demolished around 1970 .

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HAPPY 200TH BIRTHDAY, GREENWOOD!

MAINE LINE PRODUCTS

297 MAIN STREET

GREENWOOD, ME 04255 (207) 875-2522 STORE HOURS: MON – SAT 9-5, SUN 10-5

TO CELEBRATE THE 200TH BIRTHDAY ON AUGUST 13, 2016

FROM 11 – 3, WE WILL BE GIVING AWAY FREE HOT FUDGE

SUNDAES!

STOP BY THE STORE AND CHECK OUT OUR SELECTION

OF GREENWOOD-RELATED GIFTS AND SOUVENIRS.

GET A FREE SAMPLE OF THE OFFICIAL BICENTENNIAL

FUDGE FLAVOR – BLUEBERRY CHEESECAKE!

HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS OF WHAT OUR LOCATION LOOKED LIKE EARLIER IN THE 20TH

CENTURY. THE PHOTO ON THE LEFT WAS KNOWN AS HATHAWAY’S COUNTRY STORE AND

THE ONE ON THE RIGHT WAS OWNED BY PIP CUMMINGS PRIOR TO HATHAWAYS!

MAINE LINE PRODUCTS – PROUDLY CREATING JOBS AND SERVING

THE GIFT NEEDS OF THE GREENWOOD AREA SINCE 1979.

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Friday, August 12

3– 7pm Fire Dept. Fish Fry Locke’s Mills Fire Station

7 - 9pm Greenwood Historical Society Slide Show, Greenwood Town Hall

4-9pm Bingo, Legion Hall

Saturday, August 13

7:30 - 10am Pancake breakfast, Union Church

9am-5pm Information booth, Greenwood Town Hall

9am-Noon Rug hooking demonstrations Greenwood Town Hall

10am – 4pm Mineral displays with specimens from local mines, Greenwood Town Hall

10am – 4pm Greenwood art and photography exhibits, Greenwood Town Hall

10am – 4pm Silent auction of antique artist painted desks and local artwork, Greenwood Town Hall . Win-ners announced 5pm at Jackson/Silver Legion Post

10am- Addison Verrill book launch & signing, Green-wood Historical Society

11am Parade Howe Hill Road. Parade begins at Dunham Ball Park and ends at Main St. (Rt. 26)

11am-3pm Farmer’s market and artisan vendors, Main St.

11am-4pm Children’s activities Dunham Park, 98 Howe Hill Rd.

Noon Opening remarks, US Congressman Bruce Poliquin, Greenwood Town Hall

Noon– 3pm Wagon rides Fire station to Mt. Abram (provided by Meadow Creek Farm)

Noon– 4pm Period Clothing Exhibit, American Legion

Noon Maine State Police Canine Unit demonstrations, also 100% organic, both at Dunham Park

Noon Finnish concert performed by A’Chording to Can-tele, Union Church.

1-2pm Civil War Muster & Band, American Legion

1– 4pm Music events and presentations, Town Hall, per-formances upstairs (Stair chair lift available)

1:00 Dean Bennett, (author), Ghost Buck reading and discussion

2:00 Centennial Brass Band

3:00 Barber Shop Quartet, Back Bay Four

4:00 Northside Ramblers

1pm – 4pm Greenwood Fire Dept. Open House

1pm – 4pm Greenwood school reunion, Greenwood His-torical Society

3pm Cow Chip Bingo with authentic cow chips, 100% organic

4-7pm Chicken barbeque, Jackson/Silver Legion Post

7-11pm Dance with music by Shadagee Ramblers, Mt. Abram

9pm Fireworks, Mt Abram (rain date, Sunday, Aug. 14)

Sunday August 14

9-10am Old-fashioned church service, Union Church

9am-4pm Greenwood Historical Society Open House

Greenwood Bicentennial Schedule of Events August 12 – August 14, 2016

Main St./Rt. 26

Historical Society

Union

Church Greenwood

Town Hall

Fire Station

Jackson/Silver Legion

Gore Rd.

Dunham Park

Mt. Abram

Event location map

Howe Hill Rd.

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Cheers, Greenwood,

on 200 years

of township.

Gaudreau’s Repair 560 Walker’s Mills Rd. Bethel 824-2807

24-hour towing Specializing in Jeeps & 4x4s

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Celebrating

all the people

who made,

and are making,

Greenwood great.

The Local Hub Market & Café

224 Main St. Greenwood 875-0011

Sun.-Th 7am-8pm Fri-Sat 7am-10pm

Friday is Taco Night. Saturday is Burger Night.

Eat-in & Take-out, Bakery, Local Produce

Originally known as Plantation No. 4, the township of Greenwood was made up of three grants, made between 1795 and 1805. The grant-ees sold lots to the early settlers, who met in 1813 to organize a plantation form of government.

In 1815 the citizens voted to in-corporate, and on February 2, 1816, Greenwood became the 213th town in the District of Maine.

The Greenwood Road, built about 1820, was the main highway to Portland from points north. Green-wood City, on the outlet of Hicks Pond, was the first town center, with mills, stores, a blacksmith, a church, and a school.

Early townspeople settled in nine districts, eventually building elev-en schoolhouses.

Samuel Locke Sr. of Bethel built

the first dam and mills at what is now the village of Locke’s Mills on the Alder River in 1819, but the ar-ea remained remote until the mid-19th century.

After the railroad was construct-ed through town in 1851 and 1852, traffic on the Greenwood Road de-clined. Most of the buildings in Greenwood City burned in 1862 and were never rebuilt. The busi-nesses relocated to be near the rail-road, and Locke’s Mills became the town’s center and most populous neighborhood.

The first schoolhouse in Locke’s Mills, the Alder River School (razed in 2016), was constructed in 1851, and the schoolhouse on the Bird Hill Road in 1890.

For some years, town meetings were held at the Mt. Abram Hotel

in Locke’s Mills. Around 1932, the town built the present Town Hall.

The Locke Mills Union Church, built in 1883-84, continues to hold weekly services and sponsors many special events throughout the year.

This information was provided by the Greenwood Historical Society. A much more detailed history is available at www.greenwoodhistorical.org

Cover Artwork done by Joyce Hathaway.

Historic Photos courtesy of the

Greenwood Historical Society.

Page 5— Florence & Frances Cummings

Page 7— Howe Hill School

Page 11—Snow Removal, Greenwood Rd.

Page 13—Felt Family, Howe Hill Rd

L—Ruth Ring

R—Ethel Sanborn

Page 14—Ransom Cole, Shadagee Mill

Hicks Farm, Locke’s Mills

A Brief History of Greenwood, Maine

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Norway savings

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Happy

Bicentennial

Birthday,

Greenwood.

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Catering

200 good years.

Hope

Greenwood has

200 more.

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By Christopher Dunham

In January 1816, just a few weeks

before Plantation Number Four

learned of its incorporation as the

town of Greenwood, news reached

Maine of a massive volcanic eruption

halfway around the world. Mount

Tambora in what is now Indonesia

had exploded the previous spring,

sending a great volume of ash and gas

into the atmosphere. The ash fell, but

the sulfur dioxide rose, oxidized, and

in the months that followed circled the

globe. As the citizens of Greenwood

gathered for their first town meeting

in March, sulfate ions were gathering

high overhead, scattering sunlight and

cooling the earth below. Greenwood's

first year as a town would come to be

known as “The Year Without a

Summer.”

Daniel Verrill, who came to

Greenwood from Minot in 1818, told

his grandson of the "frosty year, 1816,

when frost and ice formed during

every month, and all the corn and

nearly all the other crops were killed."

Ransom Dunham of Woodstock

recalled weather in June “so cold that

it killed the birds; English robins were

picked up as well as all kinds of birds,

frozen to death.” Summer was as dry

as it was cold. In the fall, fires swept

through Greenwood and surrounding

towns. William B. Lapham wrote of

fires so extensive that in Woodstock

“ordinary print could be read by their

light in almost any part of the town at

midnight, and the summits of the

blazing mountains could be seen far

away.” The Portland Gazette reported

that the smoke—carried by winds as

far as Boston—was “oppressive and

almost suffocating, affecting the eyes

and lungs most disagreeably.” A large

quantity of timber was killed in

Greenwood, much of which would be

Continued on page 10

1816—Greenwood’s Year without Summer

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Looking

good for

200 years,

Greenwood.

Paaso Racing 303 Main St. Greenwood 357-1979 paasoracing.com

We repair, maintain, and modify it all

Happy

Bicentennial

Birthday,

Greenwood.

We’ve Got the Look Holly Roberts, Stylist

920 Walkers Mills Rd. Bethel 875-CUTS

Full-service hair & tanning salon

salvaged by Samuel B. Locke of

Bethel, who in 1819 bought land here

and commenced erecting mills in the

village that would bear his name.

The summer and fall of 1816 were

followed by what Artemas Felt called

“the hardest winter I ever knew.”

Snow came “early and deep,” he

wrote, “and averaged six to eight feet

on a level.” By the time of spring's late

arrival, food was scarce for both the

settlers and their livestock, and prices

were steep. Major Jonathan

Cummings of Norway, who had

purchased a large tract of land in the

southern part of Greenwood

previously granted to Phillips

Academy, pitied the farmers too poor

to plant a crop, and provided four

bushels of seed corn for their use.

Many who had contracted to buy

their land from Major Cummings

struggled to make payments after the

events of 1816, and his remaining lots

in Greenwood were slow to sell.

Meanwhile, Cummings—whose

generosity exceeded both his means

and his business sense—faced

demands from his own creditors.

Despondent, he committed suicide in

1820. Settlers who had not obtained

clear title to their land were left to the

mercy of Phillips Academy, which

reclaimed much of its former grant.

Land owned by the Academy was

exempt from taxation, placing

thousands of acres beyond the reach

of Greenwood's assessors. The

foreclosure would hobble the town's

ambitions for decades.

The Year Without a Summer had

driven Greenwood's settlers to the

brink of starvation, driven its largest

landholder into insolvency and

despair, and depleted its tax base for a

generation. But despite these early

hardships, Greenwood would

survive, and in the latter half of its

first century, with the coming of the

railroad and the expansion of

industry, it would thrive.

Continued from page 7

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Celebrating all the

people who made,

and are making,

Greenwood great.

Mt Abram Maine’s Authentic Skiing & Riding Experience

308 Howe Hill Rd. Greenwood 875-5000 mtabram.com

Cheers,

Greenwood,

on your

200th

Birthday.

Swan Screen Printing

824-4836 swanscreen@roadrunner.com

151 Vernon St. Bethel

Posters, decals, signage, T-shirts

20 years in western Maine

The Greenwood Fire Depart-ment holds fund-raising fish fry dinners every other Friday. They offer fresh haddock, hand-cut fries, and all the fixings. Chicken is also available. These dinners help raise money for equipment. They have be-come so popular, they fre-quently sell out before closing. Here’s this year’s schedule. All are from 3-7PM at the Howe Hill Rd. fire station, and the cooks and servers are our firefighters. Credit/debit cards accepted as well as plain old cash.

Be Sure to Catch a Friday Fish Fry with the

Fire Fighters

July 8 July 22 Aug. 12

Aug. 26 Sept. 9 Sept. 23

Fire Chief Al Curtis Jr.

cooking up the haddock.

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Maine is well-known for its tourmaline, beryl, and other miner-als that are found in pegmatite (a coarse-grained granite). Quartz, feldspar, muscovite mica are the main minerals composing pegma-tites. Pockets (aka vugs) are com-monly encountered in many of the Greenwood pegmatites. These vugs can contain a range of differ-ent crystals. These crystals may in-clude quartz (smoky, clear and milky), tourmaline in green, pink and blue colors, beryl (aquamarine and morganite) and purple fluo-rapatite.

Greenwood has numerous pegmatite formations and many of these have been mined over the years. The following is a list of Greenwood mines and some of the notable crystals found in them.

Most of these mines are on private property, and permission is required before going to them. Tamminen and Waisanen are currently open to visitors. Hayes Quarry—Main specimens: bertrandite, almandine, fluorapat-ite. Diamond Ledges—Main speci-mens: pyrite, quartz. Emmons Quarry - beryl (aquamarine), pollucite, cassiterite, blue and purple fluoroapatite, hy-droxylherderite. Tiger Bill Quarry - Main speci-mens: felspar, beryl (aquamarine), blue and purple fluoroapatite, Harvard Quarry - Main specimens: lilac to purple fluorapatite, cassiterite, tabular blue fluoroap-atite. The quarry is named after

Harvard University which operat-ed it for mineral specimens from 1923-24. Nubble Quarry - Minerals found: quartz, muscovite, feldspar, garnet, beryl fluoroapatite and more. Tamminen Quarry – Montmorillo-nite, petalite, and pseudo-cubic quartz crystals. Waisenen Quarry - Mined for feld-spar in 1963. Some of Maine’s best hydroxylherderite crystals as well as good bertrandite and smoky quartz crystals found here. Witt Hill - Single and twinned chrysoberyl crystals found here.

(Source: A Collector's Guide to

Maine Mineral Localities by WB Thompson, DL Joyner, RG Woodman, VT King. ME Geological Survey, 1988.)

Happy Bicentennial

Birthday,

Greenwood

MUSEUM STORE AND

PREVIEW GALLERY NOW

OPEN

Jewelry – Gems – Minerals

57 Main Street

Join us on July 21st at 3 pm for our Third Thursday Talk dedi-

cated to the history of Greenwood Mines and Mining by Carl

Francis, Curator.

Stop in and see our Greenwood mineral display at the Museum

as well as at the Greenwood Town Hall during the bicentennial.

Bethel, Maine 04217

Mines and Minerals of Greenwood

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Celebrating all

the people

who made, &

are making,

Greenwood

great.

Happy

Bicentennial

Birthday,

Greenwood.

KELLY NEWKIRK, CPA 918 Walkers Mills Rd. Bethel

875-2401 newkirkcpa.com Kelly@newkirkcpa.com

Your Trusted Advisor

Northern Roots Grow Supply 3 Bird Hill Rd., Greenwood

875-2089 northern rootsgrowsupply.com

Indoor & Outdoor Garden Supplies

Celebrating

all the people

who made, &

are making,

Greenwood

great.

Specialty Timberworks

Main St. Locke’s Mills 357-4220

Specialtytimberworks.com cbtenon@gmail.com

Unique post & beam houses & barns

Cheers, Greenwood,

on your 200th birthday.

Fred Curtis Logging

109 Hayes Hill Rd. Greenwood

744-5225 or 527-2028

Land clearing Selective cutting, Firewood

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Breaus 2

Congratulations,

Greenwood, on

200 years of

township.

Breau’s “Too” 12 Main St., Bryant Pond M-F 5AM-10PM Sat. & Sun. 6AM-10PM

665-2933

Grocery and gasoline

Pizza, subs, beer cave, agency liquor store, ice cream, treats and sweets

Serving the building needs

of Greenwood for 52 of those 200 years.

Western Maine Supply

Cross St. Bethel

824-2139 westernmainesupply.com

Building and remodeling materials

Mallard Mart

West Paris 674-2087 . Bethel 824-6111 . Norway 739-6050

6am-9pm 7 days a week

Gas Food Groceries

Italians Pizza Salads Fries Daily Specials

200?

You’re

just a

baby!

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