Shorey Park and Around...

Dam at the “second power site”.

Shorey Park

BRIDGTON, Maine - Make a point of visiting Shorey Park and the source of Stevens Brook at the Highland Lake southern shoreline. Engage in a little 19^th century industrial archeology by taking a good look at the remnants of the granite block dam at the “outlet” of Highland Lake. Also, the picturesque bridge at ShoreyPark is the remnant dam of the so called “second power site”. Each of these historic dams were built to power a concentration of textile, saw, and door & sash mills that once stood at this site upon Stevens Brook. The entire 2.2 mile run of Stevens Brook connecting Highland Lake with Long Lake once boasted eleven power sites and manufacturing industries.

These grand manufacturing buildings erected to produce woolen textiles, tanneries, doors & sashes, furniture, shovel handles, stockings, lumber, and also including foundries, machine shops, textile finishing and wool carding mills have all been lost to fire or demolition, with the exception of the 1868 Cabinet & Furniture Mill of Lewis Smith at the corner of Mill Street and Smith Street.