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 moves to Reynoldston – Reynolds Mill starts operating -The firm includes Phoebe Reynolds
1870/71 Joseph Campbell moves to Reynoldston
1876 Reynolds, Bordeaux & Campbell families, shown on map residing in Reynolds’ Mill
1876-80 Orson Reynolds Supervisor of Brandon
1880 O. Reynolds buys Webster Tract
1886 School house built
1887 Orson Reynolds dies at 58. – Reynolds Brothers & Co. formed – – Frank, J. Newton, Herbert, Berton – Reynolds
open store: use shinplasters to pay workers instead of US currency–
Reynolds Build Telegraph to Reynoldston and other towns: switchboard in Reynolds Store
1894 Reynolds’ Mill name changed to Reynoldston –
Post Office opens in Reynoldston; Henry Lincoln 1st Postmaster
1897 Reynoldston Telegraph expands to Owl’s Head
1901 Reynoldston Telephone Line built – St. Regis Falls – to Dickinson Center
1905 – A stone and concrete dam completed- A new mill to produce hardwood flooring planned
– Reynolds Bros. land holdings – 10,000 acres
1906 Berton Reynolds buys out W.C Shorts share of the Malone Lumber Company. Reynolds and Charlie Wilding are
co-owners of the Malone Lumber Co. – Berton Reyolds Family moves to Malone
1908 Beginning of Brooklyn Cooperage contract
1909 Reynolds Bros. selling matched lumber, clapboards
1910 Census 361 residents – 86 households
1910 Phoebe Reynolds dies
1915 Frank Reynolds dies (ruptured appendicitis)
1917 Allen Bordeaux dies, ae. 82
1918 Expiration of Brooklyn Cooperage Contract – Cutting has exhausted the supply ofhardwood trees
1918 Telephone Company sold – Post office closed
c 1919 Switch to cutting softwood for Malone Paper Co. – 100 tons a day
1906-19 Dates of operation of Bordeaux Dance Hall
– Brandon 900 residents
– Father Lauzon says mass in Reynoldston
1918 L. Cass Bowen buys out Berton Reynolds’ share of Malone Lumber Company, Berton Reynolds retires.
1920 Reynoldston school has 41 Students
c. 1921 Mill stops running on a regular basis
1922 Reynoldston has baseball team – Newton Reynolds dies, age. 60
c. 1925 End of cutting pulp for Malone Paper Company
1926 Berton Reynolds killed in Utica in a car accident – Reynolds Bros. Mill business closed
c. 1927 Houses in Reynoldston offered for $50.00 each, none sold (Chateaugy Record, 1934)
1929 Father Cornish holds outdoor Mass
1934 Reynolds Brothers sell 700 acres of land to State of New York. Other land goes tostate for taxes
1930’s Civilian Conservation Corps builds fire access roads in Reynoldston
1940/41 Reynoldston school closed
1940 Herbert Reynolds uses a Cadilac engine to cut wood in Reynoldston.
1945 Herbert Reynolds dies