Pittsfield Historical Society
History of Pittsfield

Pittsfield on the Sebasticook

by Sanger Mills Cook
originally published in 1966

Table of Contents


Frontier Days (Chapter I) (1606-1850) 11-34

Lovel Fairbrother 16

Moses Martin 17-21

First settlers (1800-1825) 21-26

Civic problems 26-28

An act of incorporation: Warsaw 28-34

Awakening (Chapter II) (1850-1880) 35-59

Penobscot and Kennebec Railroad Company 35

The Pittsfield Advertiser (Number 40) 39-41

On the West Side of Main Street 41

Across the railroad , South 42

No street south of the railroad 42

Buildings south of the railroad 43-44

On the Detroit Road 44

Seventy-One buildings 44-45

A solid granite and cement dam 45

Twenty year accomplishments 45 47

The only hall in town 47

Church 47

Doctors 48

Ministers 48

Organizations 48

Closing 49

Maine Central Institute 49 55

Statement of Facts 52-55

Lancey House 55 59

Surging Ahead (Chapter III) (1880-1900) 60-87

Pittsfield Advertiser 60-61

Union Hall 61-64

Sebasticook & Moosehead Railroad 64-65

Pant Town 65-69

Racing 69-76

Waverly Mill 76-79

Pittsfield Water Works 80-82

Robert Dobson Dies 82-83

Powers Hall 83-84

Baptist 30th Anniversary 84-86

Universalist Church Renovated 86

Financial Trouble at MCI 86-87

Complacency (Chapter IV) (1900-1930), 88-116

General 88-91

Public Library 91

Burnham Dam 91-92

Ringwood 92-93

Library Dedicated 93-94

St. Agnes Parish 94-95

Banks Make News 96

Lancey House Fire 97

Bryant Company Fails 97-99

1910-1917 99-102

Dobsons Sell to American Woolen 103

Militia Organized 103-104

MCI Builds Dormitory 104-105

World War I 105-106

100th Anniversary 106-109

Hathorn Park 109-113

Alumni Hall 113-116

Difficult Times (Chapter V)(1930-1940), 117-128

General 117-118

Woolen Mills in trouble 118-119

Pittsfield National Bank Closed 119-120

Airport proposed 120-122

1935-1940 122-124

Town Manager Plan Adopted 124-126

Kiwanis Organized 126-127

Union Hall Damaged by Fire 127-128

Resurgence (Chapter VI) (1940-1960), 129-158

Pittsfield Municipal Airport 129-130

War Activities 130-131

Industrial Activity: Shoe Manufacturing Comes to Pittsfield 131-132

Pittsfield Woolen Yarns Co., Inc. 132-133

Machine Shops 133

Cianchette Buys Lancey House 134

The Advertiser Changes Hands 134-135

Dry Cleaning 135

Riverside Mill 135

Peltoma Acres 136

The Edwards Company 136-141

Changes Downtown 141-143

Education 143

Manson Park School 143-144

Vickery School 144

Maine Central Institute 144-146

Churches 146-150

First Baptist Church 146-147

Universalist Church 147-148

St. Agnes Church 148-149

Church of the Nazarene 149

Calvary Baptist Church 149-150

Special Events 150

Manson Park 151

Swimming Pool 151

The Eisenhower Visit 152-155

Town Affairs 155-156

Headline Personalities 156-158

Obituaries 158

Today (Chapter VII) (1960), 159-175

New Leadership 159

Sebasticook Valley Hospital 160-161

Manufacturing 161-162

Contracting 162

Retail 163

Insurance 163

Changes in The Advertiser 164

The Lancey House 164-166

Schools 166-167

MCI 167-168

Churches 168-169

Racing 169-171

Post Office Dedication 172-173

Alma Mater (song) 175

Appendix 176

Military Records 176

Honor Roll, World War I 177-181

Honor Roll, World War II 181-184

Town Officials, Selectmen 185-187

Town Clerks 187

Treasurers 187-188

Superintendent of Water Works 188

Fire Chiefs 188

Kiwanis Club Presidents 188-189

Population Statistics 189

Sebasticook (poem) 190-191

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