Description: “Maine – McKinley - The McKinley Fish & Freezer Co., recently organized, with S.S. Nickerson, president, is building a modern fish freezing and cold storage plant, the latter to have storage space for about 10,000 barrels of fish. Two 30-ton Palson absorption refrigerating machines will be installed. The sharp freezer, with capacity for about 200 barrels of fish per day, will be located on the third floor, all of which it will occupy, and will be piped with 25,000 feet of 1¼-inch d.e. piping. The two lower floors will be cooled by air circulation from the sharp freezer. A small ice making system will also be added. Plant is to be ready for operation in May. 1911.” – “Ice and Refrigeration” Vol. 39, by Southern Ice Exchange, published by H.S. Rich & Co., p. 317, 1910. The building, always known simply as the "Cold Storage," became Sim Davis' boat shop, later was owned by the Hinckley Co., part of the Morris Yachts property in 2008. Perry Warrington Richardson (1839-1918) was an early President (1915) of the McKinley Fish & Freezer Co. His son, Herbert Perry Richardson (1863-1938) was the Treasurer. [show more]
Description: Buildings - Left to Right: Unknown darker house behind a small tree Francis McMullin Sr. House (the large white house behind a tree) Dora E. Torrey House - 14 McMullen Avenue H.G. Reed Store - Harbor Avenue (Route 102 A) at the corner of McMullen Avenue
Description: Vilda S. Robbins was born to Charles D. (I) and Sarah Maria (Dow) Robbins on March 24, 1864 in Tremont, Maine. Vilda married John T. Knowlton (1858-1923) on January 31, 1881 in Tremont. Vilda and John had one daughter, Gertrude M. Knowlton, a nurse who went to live in Boston. Vilda ran a dry goods store from their home in McKinley, Maine, and advertised herself as a "dressmaker and dealer in dry & fancy goods." She also contracted for and sold postcards of the McKinley area. - “The Island of Mount Desert Register with The Cranberry Isles 1909-10,” compiled by Lawton, Jordan & Maddox, Auburn, Maine, Published by the Lawton-Jordan Co., p. 306 – 1909-1910 Vilda S. (Robbins) Knowlton died on April 29, 1963 in Hampden, Maine at the age of 99. [show more]