Emporium Lumber Company Records

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Collection Summary
Administrative Information
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Historical Note
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Scope and Content Note
Separated Materials
Container List
Series I - General Correspondence
Series II - Subject Files
Series III - Subject Files - Property Miscellaneous
Series IV - Subject Files - Company Miscellaneous
Series V - Deeds
Series VI - Miscellaneous Legal and Financial Papers
Series VII - Survey Reports
Series VIII - Tax Materials
Series IX - Photographs
Series X - Printed Matter
Series XI - Maps

Emporium Lumber Company Records

Collection Inventory

Series I - General Correspondence
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General Correspondence 1907-1927				1
General Correspondence 1928-1946				2
General Correspondence 1947-1967				3
General Correspondence undated				3
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Series II - Subject Files
U.S. Forest Service - Green Mountain Land Purchase
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Correspondence 1928-1967				3
Bertheau Property, Peru, VT; letters, legal material 1956-1958				3
Connors property, Dorset, VT: letters, legal material 1960-1962				3
Porter Dale and Frank L. Greene: letters regarding government land purchase 1927				3
"U.S.D.A. Agreement for the Purchase of Lands..." 1931 June 8				3
Land purchase options and contracts; Proposals for the sale of land. 1930-1959				3
Title abstracts by J.F. Radigan undated				3
Survey description of Tracts 10, 10-I, 10-II, 10-III, 10-IV, 10-V, 10b by E.R. Conrad 1931				3
Survey description of Tracts 10a, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n and o by A.E. Hoxie 1934				3
Miscellaneous deeds 1925-1959				3
Miscellaneous legal papers 1932-1957				3
Depositions by Nelson C. Nichols, Wilbur H. Griffith, Cecil McIntyre and William G. Andrew 1941, undated				3
Printed matter 1929-1940				3
Bellows Falls Ice Co.
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Correspondence with Emporium Forestry Company 1941, 1944-1945				4
Contract for Griffith Lake stumpage with letters 1941, 1944-1945				4
Notes and figures 1941,1945, undated				4
Vermont Timberland Owners' Association
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Correspondence with Emporium Forestry Company 1917-1969				4
Annual reports 1924-1940, 1964-1967				4
Treasurer's reports 1946-1960				4
Minutes of meetings 1950-1967				4
Notices of meetings 1922-1968				4
By-laws undated				4
Membership lists 1959, 1961, undated				4
Fire reports 1930-1960				4
"Vermont Timberland Owners' Association - What It Is and What It Does" 1961				4
Miscellaneous 1951-1956, undated				4
Griffith Estate
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Receipts and Letters 1903-1923				4
Receipts and Letters 1924-1936				4
Tax Materials 1906				4
Deeds and Legal materials 1887-1932, undated				4
Vermont Water Power
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Correspondence regarding water power 1937-1961				4
Correspondence regarding water power undated				4
Letters regarding Saturday Evening Post water power article 1946				4
Report on the Big Branch Power Project 1931				4
Miscellaneous deeds 1920, 1930-1931, undated				4
Notes and figures regarding water power 1937-1938, undated				4
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Series III - Subject Files - Property Miscellaneous
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American Fork and Hoe Company: letters, deed 1942				4
Bennington and Glastonbury Company: letters, deeds 1925				4
John A. Birge propertym Peru, Vermont: telegrams, deeds 1925				4
Albert E. Buck property, Sunderland, Vermont: letters, deeds 1932				4
Cranberry Lake, New York, road: letters 1920-1922				4
E.C. Crosby property Mt. Tabor, Vermont: letters, deeds 1932				4
Diocese of Vermont property, Mt. Tabor, Vermont: letters, deeds 1935				4
Carl H. Dittner: postcard, agreement 1910				4
Federal Deposit Insurace Corporation: deeds, receipts 1934-1944				4
Gerrish property, Dorset, letters, notes 1934-1935, 1960				4
Grasse River Railroad Corporation: bills of lading 1921				4
Marshall Hapgood Estate, Peru, Vermont: letters, deeds 1927				4
S.S. Hoag Company: letters, deeds 1908-1909				4
Thomas H. Holland property, Danby, Vermont: letters, estimates, option agreements 1926, 1937-1938				4
Johnston Pulp Company: letters, deeds, memos of agreement 1936-1940				4
Rutland Railroad regarding private side track at Danby, Vermont: letters, agreements 1919-1920, 1926				4
Sunderland, Vermont properties: letters, landlists and other materials 1924-1936				4
Tobey Lumber Company: Letters, option agreement 1942-1943				4
Valley View Farm, Incorporated: memorandum of agreement 1938				4
U.S.A. versus Emporium Forestry Company: letters, petitions for condemnation of lands 1932-1942				4
U.S. Department of Labor versus Emporium Forestry Company - Fair Labor Standards Act: summons, complaint 1946				4
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Series IV - Subject Files - Company Miscellaneous
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Inquiries and Quotations 1919				5
Inquiries and Quotations 1920				5
State of Vermont - Commissioner of Industries: statistical certificate 1920 July 12				5
Unidentified house plans undated				5
Letters regarding passport for John Herzog 1919				5
Letters regarding rail shipments 1922-1923, undated				5
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Series V - Deeds
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Dorset, Vermont deeds 1868-1932				5
Mt. Tabor, Vermont - mortgage deeds 1866-1892, 1911, 1919				5
Mt. Tabor, Vermont - quit-claim deeds 1868-1878				5
Mt. Tabor, Vermont - quit-claim deeds 1880-1895				5
Mt. Tabor, Vermont - quit-claim deeds 1902-1906, 1920, 1930, 1932				5
Mt. Tabor, Vermont - warranty deeds 1861-1879				5
Mt. Tabor, Vermont - warranty deeds 1880-1889				5
Mt. Tabor, Vermont - warranty deeds 1892-1911				5
Mt. Tabor, Vermont - miscellaneous deeds 1854-1925				5
Peru, Vermont - mortgage deeds 1886-1917				5
Peru, Vermont - quit-claim deeds 1859-1898				5
Peru, Vermont - warranty deeds 1860-1908				5
Peru, Vermont - miscellaneous deeds 1853-1903, 1925, 1934				5
Stratton, Vermont - mortgage deeds 1889-1901				5
Stratton, Vermont - quit-claim deeds 1883-1899				5
Stratton, Vermont - quit-claim deeds 1901-1906				5
Stratton, Vermont - warranty deeds 1871-1888				5
Stratton, Vermont - warranty deeds 1890-1899				5
Stratton, Vermont - warranty deeds 1900-1907				5
Stratton, Vermont - miscellaneous deeds 1881-1904				5
Sunderland, Vermont - mortgage deeds 1907, 1924, 1935				5
Sunderland, Vermont - quit-claim deeds 1886-1904, 1941-1942				5
Sunderland, Vermont - warranty deeds 1880-1901				5
Sunderland, Vermont - miscellaneous deeds 1904-1942				5
Miscellaneous Vermont deeds 1855-1920				5
New York State and other non-Vermont deeds 1886-1920				5
Deeds - company copies (?) 1895-1941, undated				5
Notes on deeds 1925, undated				5
Title abstracts - Dorset, Mt. Tabor, Sutherland 1921, 1933-1936, undated				5
Title abstract - Mt. Tabor - bound volume 1916? undated				6
Title abstract - Peru and Stratton - bound volume undated				6
Title abstract - Stratton - bound volume undated				6
Title abstract - Sunderland and Glastenbury - bound volume undated				6
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Series VI - Miscellaneous Legal and Financial Papers
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Cash account sheets, Danbury, Vermont 1944-1946				6
Ledger sheets - Cranberry Lake (?) rentals 1881-1945				6
Miscellaneous receipts and bills of sale 1892-958				6
Miscellaneous leases 1881-1945				6
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Series VII - Survey Reports
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Report by George H. Chedel and Thomas F. Stapleton 1916?				6
Reports by Crawshaw and Donohue 1922, 1924				6
Report by James D. Lacey and Company 1920				6
Reports by F.E. Lary and E.M. Macy 1918				6
Reports by F.R. Meier 1922				6
Reports by Ed Ressler and G.W. Sykes 1938				6
Reports by E.L. Staples 1916-1925				6
Reports by Vitale and Rothery 1916-1931				6
Reports by John A. Wheeler 1925				6
Miscellaneous reports 1916-1941				6
Land lists and descriptions 1921-1959				6
"13 cut-out sections or parcels of land, Sunderland, Vermont." undated				6
Minutes and memoranda 1905-1966				6
Miscellaneous survey notes 1931-1938, undated				6
Miscellaneous notes and figures 1922-1958				6
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Series VIII - Tax Materials
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Tax inventories - Mt. Tabor, Vermont 1917-1949, 1951, 1959				7
Dorset, Vermont - miscellaneous 1908-1965				7
Glastenbury, Vermont - miscellaneous 1916-1917				7
Mt. Tabor, Vermont - miscellaneous 1907-1919				7
Mt. Tabor, Vermont - miscellaneous 1920-1941				7
Peru, Vermont - miscellaneous 1906-1919				7
Peru, Vermont - miscellaneous 1920-1944, 1958				7
Stratton, Vermont - miscellaneous 1906-1920				7
Sunderland, Vermont - miscellaneous 1906-1929				7
Sunderland, Vermont - miscellaneous 1930-1941				7
Winhall, Vermont - miscellaneous 1906-1920				7
Danby - Mt. Tabor Fire District tax notices 1919-1935				7
Correspondence regarding Vermont corporation tax and licensing 1941, 1945				7
Vermont state annual license tax 1906-1915				7
Forms and letters regarding Vermont state corporation franchise tax 1932-1939				7
Forms and letters regarding intangible tax returns 1927-1930				7
Miscellaneous 1906-1944				7
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Series IX - Photographs
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Logging locomotive - snapshot undated				7
"Grout Job, Griffith Estate, South End, Mt. Tabor, Vermont" undated				7
"South End, Mt. Tabor, Vermont" undated				7
"South End and Dorset Mountain" undated				7
Emporium timberland - Vermont, Emporium lumberyard (?) undated				7
Unidentified negatives undated				7
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Series X - Printed Matter
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Northern Logger, Volume 18 Number 12, Volume 19 Numbers 3 and 6. Contains "William L. Sykes and the Emporium" by William G. Gove, parts I to III 1970 June, September, December				7
Thomas T. Taber, III, Whining Saws and Squealing Flanges, Chapter 6.2 "Emporium Timber Company" 1972				7
Silas Griffith: biographical material; Marvelle C. Webber: biographical material 1917, 1940				7
Town reports - Mt. Tabor, Vermont 1910, 1912, 1937, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1945-1952, 1954, 1956				7
Town reports - Peru, Vermont 1956				7
Town reports - Sunderland, Vermont 1912, 1923, 1936, 1938-1941				7
Internal Affairs, monthly bulletin of the Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs 1953 December, 1954 February - November				7
Regarding New England Forestry Foundation 1944				7
"Tax Situations on Forest Lands: Organized Towns and Plantations, Maine" 1945				7
Green Mountain National Forest, map and brochure, three copies 1953				7
Material regarding Forbes, Incorporated Special Situation Survey undated				7
Guidebook of the Long Trail 1920				7
State of Vermont: Fish and Game - General laws 1925-1926				7
"Vermont Laws Relating to Forest Fire Control" undated				7
"Bulletin Number 7 1/2, Vermont Tax Department" 1915				7
Department of Forests and Parks, Fire Warden list 1956				7
"Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics" 1956				7
Alphabetical and numerical index to Vermont House, with House diagram 1931				7
Newsletters: The Long Trail News, Volume 4 Number 14 1932 April				7
Newsletters: National Hardwood News, Number 322 1948 June 25				7
Newsletters: The Timberman (reprint) 1954 September				7
Tuttle Law Print, Incorporated, price list and sample forms 1964				7
Miscellaneous brochures and advertisements 1919-1951				7
Newspaper clippings 1933-1955				7
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Series XI - Maps
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Cruise map of Emporium's Griffith Lake Tract, Rutland and Bennington Counties, 5 copies undated				1
Griffith Lake Timber Tracts, 6 copies undated				1
Emporium lands in Sunderland and Stratton, Vermont, 2 copies undated				1
Emporium lands in Mt. Tabor, Peru, Windhall, Sunderland, Stratton, and Glastenbury, Vermont, 11 copies				1
Emporium lands in Mt. Tabor, Peru, Winhall, Sunderland and Stratton, Vermont, 3 copies undated				1
1927 March				2
Sunderland and Glastenbury Maps: Plan to accompany deed from Emporium Lumber Company to Champlain Realty, Sunderland, Vermont, by E. Mc Court Macy 1920 October				2
Sunderland and Glastenbury Maps: Glastenbury parcels, surveyed May 9-10 and 24 by J.B. Todd 1907 May 9-10 and 24				2
Sunderland and Glastenbury Maps: Survey Map by A.M. Richards 1936 May 11				2
Sunderland and Glastenbury Maps: Parcel Map by E.G. Bacon undated				2
Sunderland and Glastenbury Maps: Parcel Map from Mayb 1907 survey and Bacon map by J.B. Todd, 5 copies undated				2
Rutland Railroad, Danbury, VT: Map of land leased to Enrico Villotti 1911 March				2
Rutland Railroad, Danbury, VT: Emporium Lumber Company buildings 1913 December 19				2
Peru, Vermont Maps: Parcel maps of Peru, from surveys in May 1907 and official records, 11 copies undated				3
Peru, Vermont Maps: Peru reservation 120.47A undated				3
Stratton, Vermont Maps: Map of Knowlton Place surveyed May 16, 1907 and official records, 11 copies 1907 May 16				3
Stratton, Vermont Maps: Plan of Stratton, Vermont, 2 copies undated				3
Stratton, Vermont Maps: Parcel map compiled from map of C.E. Skinner by J.B. Todd 1907 April				3
Stratton, Vermont Maps: Parcel maps of Stratton from surveys in April and May 1907 by C.E. Skinner, 4 copies 1907				3
Mt. Tabor Maps: P.G. Bond purchase, 4 copies 1931				4
Mt. Tabor Maps: V. Griffith purchase, 5 copies 1931				4
Mt. Tabor Maps: Mt. Tabor parcel map from surveys in June to September 1907, 6 copies 1907				4
Winhall, Vermont Maps: Winhall parcel map from official records, October 1907, 3 copies 1907				4
Vermont Water Power Maps: Old Job Reservoir, Mt. Tabor, from maps and notes of H.C. Van Horn, 6 copies 1931				5
Vermont Water Power Maps: Black Branch Reservoir, Mt. Tabor, from maps and notes of H.C. Van Horn, 2 copies 1931				5
Vermont Water Power Maps: Black Branch Reservoir, Mt. Tabor, from maps and notes of H.C. Van Horn and N.S. Reilly, 3 copies 1931-1937				5
Lost Point Reservation and pipeline easement, Mt. Tabor, from notes by H.C. Van Horn and N.S. Reilly, 3 copies 1931-1937				5
Proposed Long Hole Reservoir from maps and notes by H.C. Van Horn and N.S. Reilly, 3 copies 1931-1937				5
Long Hole Reservoir, Mt. Tabor, from map of R. Brownell 1931				5
Maps showing water power reservations, H.C. Van Horn, 2 copies 1931				5
Maps showing water power reservations: Parcels 1,2,3; parcels 2,6,7; parcels 1,3 undated				5
Map of Big Branch water power project, Mt. Tabor and Peru undated				5
Diagram: Big Branch power project, Danby, Vermont 1932 January 5				5
Pipeline - Black Branch to surge tank undated				5
Rough drawing of Long Hole, Old Job and Black Branch reservoirs undated				5
Key map, Mt. Tabor reservations, 2 copies 1930 November				5
Green Mountain National Forest Maps: Green Mountain Purchase Unit, EFC Tracts 10a, b 1930				6
Green Mountain National Forest Maps: Green Mountain Purchase Unit, EFC Tracts 10-II, 6 copies undated				6
Green Mountain National Forest Maps: Green Mountain Purchase Unit, EFC Tracts 10-III, 10-IV, 10-V, 6 copies 1931				6
Green Mountain National Forest Maps: Green Mountain National Forest, EFC Tracts 10-pI, -II, -III, -IV, -V, -VI, -VII, and q 1940				6
Green Mountain National Forest Maps: Green Mountain National Forest, Tract 84a, Dorset, Vermont 1934 January				6
Green Mountain National Forest Maps: Green Mountain National Forest, U.S.D.A. Forest Service Map, 3 copies 1932				6
Green Mountain National Forest Maps: Green Mountain National Forest, U.S.D.A. Forest Service Map 1937				6
Green Mountain National Forest Maps: Green Mountain National Forest, U.S.D.A. Forest Service Map 1951				6
U.S. Geological Survey Maps: Vermont - Wallingford sheet, 7 copies 1915-1928				7
U.S. Geological Survey Maps: Vermont - Equinox sheet 1921				7
U.S. Geological Survey Maps: Vermont - Wallingford and Pawlet sheets undated				7
U.S. Geological Survey Maps: Vermont - Brandon Quadrangle 1923				7
U.S. Geological Survey Maps: Vermont - Middlebury Quadrangle 1913				7
U.S. Geological Survey Maps: Vermont - Londonderry 1924				7
U.S. Geological Survey Maps: New Hampshire and Vermont 1918				7
U.S. Geological Survey Maps: New Hampshire and Vermont 1961				7
U.S. Geological Survey Maps: Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut 1918				7
Miscellaneous and unidentified maps 1906-1951, undated				8
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Special Collections

Finding Aids

Emporium Lumber Company Records

Collection Inventory

Series I - General Correspondence

Series II - Subject Files

U.S. Forest Service - Green Mountain Land Purchase

Bellows Falls Ice Co.

Vermont Timberland Owners' Association

Griffith Estate

Vermont Water Power

Series III - Subject Files - Property Miscellaneous

Series IV - Subject Files - Company Miscellaneous

Series V - Deeds

Series VI - Miscellaneous Legal and Financial Papers

Series VII - Survey Reports

Series VIII - Tax Materials

Series IX - Photographs

Series X - Printed Matter

Series XI - Maps