Do you remember?

In 1903, Judson Briggs hired George Bean of Monson to build a four story block, which came to take Brigg’s name. At one time, the block housed Minni Chase’s drugstore, Earl Gerrish’s grocery store, Hazel St. Louis’s clothing store, Peter Oberg’s pool room, Ernest Ladd’s office, Sam Cohen’s clothing store, the post office, the Masonic Room, the jail, the telephone exchange and an apartment, later occupied by Bill McGinnis and his family.

Sara McDonald Green was born in Brownville in 1886 and came to Katahdin Iron Works in 1906, later marrying Albert “Bert” Green, proprietor of the Silver Lake Hotel, which was still in use despite the fact that the Iron Works had ceased operations in 1891.