Town of Millinocket

Millinocket is a town in Penobscot County, incorporated on March 16, 1901 from a portion of Indian Township Number 3, the remainder of which borders the town on the north and west.

The first settlers were Thomas Fowler and his wife in 1830 and, eventually, their eight children who also settled there. In 1899, the potential for pulp production and electric power stirred the Great Northern Paper Company to build a mill at the direction of Garret Schenck, then manager of the Rumford Falls Paper Company. The forest products industry was essential to the town's creation and critical to its survival.

Millinocket is the gateway to Baxter State Park and its famed Mount Katahdin.

From Maine: An Encyclopedia (www.themaineencyclopedia.com)