Kidder Point & Mack Point: news & info 1903-1976, Plus 2002 in newspapers and government reports of the time

News  & reports on Searsport's Kidder Point & Mack Point. 1903 to 1976.  From New England newspapers and government reports of the time. 
* 1903 Armours may ship cattle via Stockton Springs
* 1905  Boston Maine Steamship Co wharf being built on Kidder Pt (column 3)
* 1906 Report on Kidder Point by Maine Bureau of Industry and labor
* 1907 Development of Searsport and Stockton Springs 1/15/1907
* 1907 American Fertilizer Co starts on Mack Pt, Powerplant on Kidder Pt   11/4/1907
* 1914 ME Railroad Board Ann Rpt on Kidder Pt Electric Plant 1914
* 1914 BAR RR closes Kidder Point power plant for Mack Point 2/29/1914
* 1925 BAR abandons Cape Jellison pier; expands Mack Point's  8/21/25
* 1928  Fire destroys giant Armor fertilizer plant in Searsport 12/31/28
* 1928 Knell sounded for Stockton Harbor
* 1941 Superphosphate use by states incl Maine
* 1943 Fire at Summers Fertilizer 5/1/43
* 1944 Price ceiling set on wartime Searsport superphosphate production 5/11/44
* 1952 Summers Fertilizer - Tour of superphosphate works 5/22/52
* 1956  Summers Fertilizer leader Totman gets award 10/26/56
* 1971 Summers Fertilizer leader's portrait presented to U Maine 4/21/71
* 1974 Submerged power cables plan between Kidder Pt & Sears Isld 12/23/74
* 1976  Delta Chemical gasses Searsport, causes Fernview shipwreck
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New! 1980s to 2000s. Under construction
* 1982 State reopens cove off Kidder Point to shellfishing 1/29/82
* 2002 CLF/GAC settlement cash to benefit Stockton Harbor Pg 1--Pg 2 10/10/02