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 |
