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Old Town Canoe Company is a historic maker of canoes in Old Town, Maine. The company had its beginnings in 1898, in buildings constructed in 1890 for a shoe business, and was incorporated in 1901. Old Town entered the canoe market as a builder of canvas-covered wooden canoes.
Upriver at Gilman Falls, E.M. White started producing canoes in 1889. [1] White gave an interview in 1901 in the Old Town Enterprise, saying: "I saw a man by the name of Evan Gerrish of Bangor riding in the Penobscot River in a canvas-covered canoe. I quickly saw the advantages of that kind over my birchbark, which moreover leaked.
Carleton was consolidated under the Old Town name as a cost-saving measure in December of 1934; [8] however, Old Town continued to print Carleton catalogs and sell Carleton canoes into the early 1940s. [9] Following their acquisition by Old Town in 1910, records of each canoe produced by Carlton were maintained and still exist.
Experts at the local historical society – which recovered a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe in November 2021 – thought it was a joke, Channel 3000 reported. It wasn’t. It wasn’t.
After the Morris factory fire, the model was built by Old Town. There is also a Molitor model built by the Carlton Canoe Company. The Molitor name is currently attached to the most expensive of Old Town's canoe models. [11] B.N. Morris canoes were offered in a single grade, and are customarily found with mahogany decks, thwarts and seat frames.
In 19th-century North America, the birch-on-frame construction technique evolved into the wood-and-canvas canoes made by fastening an external waterproofed canvas shell to planks and ribs by boat builders such as Old Town Canoe, E. M. White Canoe, Peterborough Canoe Company and at the Chestnut Canoe Company [39] in New Brunswick.
Perhaps the most significant find came in 2000, when 87 canoes — some of which were 5,000 years old — were discovered at Newnan's Lake near Gainesville. Many were found right next to each other.
I examined the canoe closely, and in a short time was able to produce one which was so good someone wanted to buy it. [7] E.M. White eventually opened a canoe shop in Old Town, Maine. nameplate on a Gerrish canoe. Gerrish canoes were exhibited at World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. [8]
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