Kennebec and Wiscasset Railroad Company

1854 – 1873

Business Type
State Chartered (Legislative)
State of Incorporation
Maine
Business Purpose
Railroad
Rail Operations
None
Operations In
United States: Maine

Timeline

April 15, 1854
Kennebec and Wiscasset Railroad Company incorporates by special act in the State of Maine.
Source
Maine Secretary of State, “An act to establish the Kennebec and Wiscasset Railroad Company,” in Acts and Resolves of the Thirty-Second Legislature of the State of Maine, 1853, 362-369 (William T. Johnson, 1853).
February 14, 1873
Kennebec and Wiscasset Railroad Company is renamed by special act to Wiscasset and Moosehead Lake Railroad Company.
Source
Maine Secretary of State, “An act to authorize the extension of the Kennebec and Wiscasset Railroad, and to change the name of the company, and to add to, and amend, existing acts in relation thereto,” in Acts and Resolves of the Fifty-Second Legislature of the State of Maine, 1873, 276-277 (Sprague, Owen & Nash, 1873).