Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
Behind lumber piles of the Freedom Lumber Company stood the Freedom Academy building that opened in 1948. One of the veteran schools of Maine, an act of the Maine State Legislature incorporated Freedom Academy on February 19, 1836. The original building was destroyed by fire on January 25, 1947. A modern, self-contained building, designed by Norman Elliot, opened the next year.
At that time the Freedom Lumber Company operated the mill, which it had owned since 1907. John True built the original mill on Sandy Stream in 1834 and operated it as a grist mill. Edmond Fuller bought it in 1845. It stayed in the Fuller family until 1894, when Ralph Wiggin and Frank Banton purchased it and turned it into a woodturning mill. After 1918 the mill began to turn mop, dowel, and novelty handles. In the 1940s the lumber in piles on the left was still used for such products.
In 2014 Erin French opened The Lost Kitchen, a French restaurant, in the old mill.
Seen behind the trees is the steeple of the Freedom Congregational Church.
About This Item
- Title: Freedom Academy and Freedom Lumber Company, Freedom, 1948
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Creation Date: 1948
- Subject Date: 1948
- Location: Freedom, Waldo County, ME
- Media: Film Negative
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm
- Local Code: LB2011.1.7
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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People
- Banton, Frank
- Eliot, Norman
- French, Erin
- Fuller, Edmond
- Fuller, Edmond
- True, John
- True, John
- Wiggin, Ralph
- Wiggin, Ralph
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