Source: Portland Daily Press-April 4, 1881

Location: Portland, Maine

 

Page: 4

An Important Sale.

Messrs. Ira C. Chase and Philip H. Hubbard of New Gloucester have sold to the Centennial Mineral Spring Company of New Jersey the homestead farm, with the buildings thereon, situated in New Gloucester.  This farm contains the well-known Centennial spring, so called, of mineral water, and the price paid was $40,000.  The deed of sale was recorded Saturday at the Registry of Deeds, and the papers were left with the Register by Mr. D. H. Mundy, the well-known general passenger agent of the Vine street ferry, Philadelphia, and agent for the Centennial Mineral Water Company.  The property sold embraces the property conveyed to Messrs. Chase and Hubbard by Josiah A. Bucknam by his deed of May 17th, 1873, reserving two lots, however, one of twenty-five, and the other of ten acres, more or less.