Hay Sleigh Traditional Cache
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This is magnetic key container, placed inside a man made object. Bring your own pen Congratulations to JIMSJEMS for a first find & a FTF to boot. Way to go!
This part of Torsey Pond is in Readfield. Torsey Stream, which powered the mills of Readfild, eventually empties into Lake Marranacook. Also called Torsey Lake, it covers 770 acres and has a max deapth of 45 feet. Nestled among tree cover hills, Torsey Pond is island-dotted and picturesque. The number of cottages is increasing, but it remains a senic location.
In 1922 My Grandfather Ivan Emerson, of Van Buren, applied by mail for a job as a farm manager for a Large farm just east of here. He got the job and moved to Readfield that year. That same year he met Laura Adams who was born and grew up in Readfield. They married bought a local farm of their own and had three daughters Barbara, Jannette, and Maxine. The Emerson family farm was close to Readfield center and my Mom, Jannette, told me of walking from home to school at Kents hill. She said that in the winter all the kids would gather here at Torsey Pond to hitch a ride up to Kents Hill School on the back of what she called a local farmer's hay sleigh, pulled by two horses. The kids would huddle amongst the hay bales to protect themselves from the cold winter winds. My Mom used to ice skate here with her Sisters, as I imagine my Grandmother might have skated with her Sisters Mildred and Verna. Readfield is a typical rural Maine town, steeped in history.
The town of Readfield was a portion of Winthrop set off and incorporated on March 11, 1791. In 1824, Luther Sampson established here the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, now called the Kents Hill School. In the late 1840s, the Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad passed through the town, and Readfield Corner developed into the commercial center. Mills were built using water power of the stream that flows from Torsey Pond into Lake Maranacook Lake. Here was established the Readfield Manufacturing Company, a woolen textile factory, as well as a sash and blind factory. Noted for its livestock and dairy farms, Readfield in 1856 became the site of the annual Kennebec County Fair, which is no longer held.
"The (Readfield) Corner" holds the most concentrated history of this town. Here the first post office was established in 1798. The Sandy River Road (Route 17) was busy with commerce. The stage, which ran from Augusta to Farmington, stopped here.
The old hotel building, also known as the Readfield House, is the only original public building left directly at the Corner. The Corner Service Station, which adjoins it, was originally a one story structure and was probably built to accommodate the Readfield House, which was the village hotel in 1892.
CACHE LONG AND PROSPER
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