NORWAY — The Norway Historical Society is hosting an evening with the theme Remembering the Cummings Mill at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 28, on the first floor of the Norway Grange on Whitman Street.

During this time, former employees and anyone connected with C.B. Cummings & Sons Inc. may share their memories.

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and a greeting time will follow the program.

Stephen Cummings and Jay Partridge, descendants of innovator Charles Bradley Cummings, who started the business in 1860, will reminisce about their years working there. They are the fifth generation of the Cummings family that owned and operated the mill for 140 years until it closed in 2002. Stephen Cummings was the last vice president and general manager of the business, and Jay Partridge was vice president of production.

The mill was located on 4½ acres on Pikes Hill Road where the medical arts building now sits. The international business shipped wooden dowels of all shapes and sizes all over the world. At its peak performance, the business was the town’s largest taxpayer and employed over 250 men and women.

Many of the machines used to create each wooden product were designed and built on the premises. The principles of its revolutionary multiple dowel planer are still used today.

Some of the company’s products included Monopoly game pieces and Tinker Toys.

The Norway Historical Society wants to collect and preserve information and objects about the mill.

Those interested may read the Society’s October 2016 and April 2016 newsletters online, which discuss the mill’s founder and his five sons. Printed copies will be available at the program.

FMI: 207-743-7377, www.norwayhistoricalsociety.org, [email protected].