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Making Potash
Earliest Economic Activity Among the very first industries in what was to become Reynoldston was the making ofpotash, a potassium-rich fertilizer made with wood ashes from which the fertilizing ingredients were leached. The process may have been similar to the domestic production of lye soap, which required leaching lye from wood ashes with water. Hiram…
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Town of Westville History
Brief History Westville is older than Reynoldston and almost on the Canadian border. Unlike Reynoldston, Westville is and was primarily a farmcommunity, with flat tillable fields and rich soil. Westville is in the St. Lawrence Valley. The Salmon River runs through Westville fields, where it widens as it approaches the St.Lawrence River in Quebec. Westville was in …
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Community Timeline
Reynoldston Timeline 1828 Town of Brandon formed from Bangor 1830 Hiram Eddy cuts a trail to make Potash – “Black Salts” in Brandon 1864 Orson Reynolds enlists in Union Army 1866-73 Flanders Mill Operates 1870’s Webster Mill Operates 1870 Orson Reynolds Justice of the Peace in Bombay c. 1869 Allen Bordeaux moves to Reynoldston c. 1872 Orson Reynolds…
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Growing Hops In Reynoldston
Growing Hops In Reynoldston Growing hops was a good source of cash for the earlr farmers/ settlers of Reynoldston. Both Allen Bordeaux and Joseph Campbell grew hops and sold them during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Their children and grandchildren recall growing and picking hops as part of their life in the community. In…
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Farming In Reynoldston
[flagallery gid=9 name=”Gallery”] FARMING Nature and custom limited the extent that Reynoldston was a farming community. The settlers of the 1870’s were few, and unlike the farmers in the St. Lawrence Valley, had no broad expanses of good land. During Reynoldston’s most active years, 1880-1930 land was cleared, and forests cut. The woods…
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The Reynolds Bros. Mill
During its peak years the Reynolds mill complex consisted of the dam, main sawmill, planing mill, shingle mill, blacksmith shop, boiler room, store, and farm. While the mill produced a range of wood products over he years, inlcuding matched lumber, clapboard siding, shingles. the hey day of the mill was reached with two…