Millinocket, Maine "Millinocket"
Millinocket, Maine Millinocket, on the Penobscot River.
Millinocket, on the Penobscot River.
Official seal of Millinocket, Maine Millinocket, Maine is positioned in Maine Millinocket, Maine - Millinocket, Maine Millinocket is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
The populace was 4,506 at the 2010 census. Millinocket's economy has historically been centered on forest products and recreation, but many region paper mills have closed in recent years.
2.1 Millinocket Lake Millinocket was first settled in 1829 by Thomas Fowler and his family, who cleared territory for a farm.
Great Northern Hotel in Millinocket (1906).
Great Northern Paper Company Mill in Millinocket (1907).
Log pile in Millinocket (1908).
After securing territory rights, the chosen site was at the junction of the West Branch of the Penobscot River and Millinocket Stream, where it stands today.
Millinocket, meaning "the territory of many islands" after all the islands in the Penobscot River, was incorporated on March 16, 1901. Italian masons were largely responsible for the assembly of the Millinocket mill. It advanced a reputation as a small but prosperous non-urban town, mostly due to the paper industry, but also to its adjacency to Katahdin, Maine's tallest mountain, and Moosehead Lake, Maine's biggest lake.
In early 2003, however, Great Northern Paper announced it had filed for bankruptcy protection for its Millinocket and East Millinocket mills.
Since then, the foundry town has struggled to reshape its economy, while receiving momentous help from the state government and small-town economic evolution efforts.
Shortly after method the mills, a Canadian corporation purchased the bankrupt paper mills in both Millinocket and East Millinocket.
Currently, the paper foundry employs over 200 workers in East Millinocket Mill only.
In addition to the traditional forest products industry, Millinocket has been burgeoning a service economy, and has grown into a primary four-season tourist attraction.
The region is served by the Millinocket Municipal Airport, which sells both 100 - LL avgas and jet fuel. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 18.22 square miles (47.19 km2), of which, 15.95 square miles (41.31 km2) of it is territory and 2.27 square miles (5.88 km2) is water. The town of East Millinocket is positioned 8 miles (13 km) to the east.
Millinocket is the closest town to Mount Katahdin, positioned in Baxter State Park 20 miles (32 km) to the northwest.
Millinocket Lake Millinocket Lake Millinocket Lake near the town, with Mount Katahdin beyond.
See Millinocket Lake (Aroostook River) for the lake north of Baxter State Park.
Millinocket Lake is 9 miles (14 km) northwest of town, and is drained by Millinocket Stream, which flows through the town of Millinocket into the West Branch Penobscot River 2 miles (3.2 km) south of town.
Millinocket Historical Society & Museum Millinocket Lake According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Millinocket has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. Climate data for Millinocket, Maine See also: Millinocket (CDP), Maine The ethnic makeup of the town was 97.7% White, 0.2% African American, 0.7% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.1% from other competitions, and 0.8% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,167 homeholds of which 19.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.4% were married couples living together, 8.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.1% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 39.8% were non-families.
The ethnic makeup of the town was 98.52% White, 0.10% Black or African American, 0.54% Native American, 0.37% Asian, 0.02% from other competitions, and 0.46% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,295 homeholds, out of which 25.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 55.7% were married couples living together, 9.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 32.2% were non-families.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 21.1% under the age of 18, 4.9% from 18 to 24, 25.0% from 25 to 44, 29.7% from 45 to 64, and 19.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
Schools in Millinocket are under the jurisdiction of the Millinocket School Department.
The town's major school is the Granite Street School, the middle school is Millinocket Middle School, and the secondary school is Stearns High School. Millinocket has one traditional journal and one online journal which serve the area: Katahdin/Lincoln region News, a weekly newspaper, distributed each Thursday, which offers a Millinocket section.
The region is served by a several airways broadcasts, mainly Millinocket-licensed WSYY-FM The Mountain 94.9 (broadcasting for approximately 18 hours per day, 7 days a week (from 4:55 - AM through 11:10 - PM ET), under the slogan, "Radio With An Attitude") and WSYY 1240 offers CBS Sports Radio as "CBS Sports Radio for the Katahdin Area" from Dawn until Dusk (ET), transmitting only on Weekends (but not between Monday-through-Friday).
Millinocket is presently home to the Discovery Channel TV show American Loggers which showcases the logging accomplishments of Gerald Pelletier Incorporated.
Millinocket is an meaningful setting in a several chapters of Maine writer Van Reid's first novel Cordelia Underwood, or the Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League.
Millinocket is the setting for Bluebird (2013 film).
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Millinocket town, Penobscot County, Maine".
History of Millinocket, Maine a b "Brief History of Millinocket, Maine," Millinocket Historical Society a b c The Maine Atlas and Gazetteer (Thirteenth ed.).
Maine Depts.
"Millinocket Lake" (PDF).
Millinocket Historical Society & Museum Climate Summary for Millinocket, Maine "Monthly Averages for Millinocket, Maine".
Millinocket page on Great - Schools Wikimedia Commons has media related to Millinocket, Maine.
Official Town of Millinocket website Municipalities and communities of Penobscot County, Maine, United States
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