A Walking Tour of Millinocket Stream

This really doesn’t look like churning water to me. It looks more like a bubble bath, yet I strongly suspect that it isn’t cleaning anything. Once again, at this point in the stream, the waterway is compressed, deeper than at most other points, and running more rapidly. I wonder what it looked like while the mill was in operation?

Great Northern Paper Company chose its location at the junction of Millinocket Stream and the West Branch of the Penobscot River in 1899, beginning construction almost immediately. As Great Northern rapidly grew to become the largest paper mill in the world, it became necessary to create a town to house its workers. Thus, the town of Millinocket was born. I wonder what Millinocket Stream was like before the mill was in operation?