Businesses of Bar Harbor
Red Rock Spring
a project of
V. F. Thomas Co. - P. O. Box 84 - Hulls Cove, Maine 04644
info@vfthomas.com
(updated 4 May 2025)
Red Rock Spring
[original date?]: Harden-Prescott Farm barn foundation:
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1902: newspaper article describing beginning of business:
1905 September 20: organized as Red Rock Spring, a Maine corporation
“The purposes of said corporation are to carry on a business of buying, renting or otherwise acquiring, to hold, own, sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, either as principal or agent, natural springs of water, and all other things incidentental and necessary in the carrying on of a general business of purchasng, selling or otherwise acquiring or disposing of either as principal or agent natural spring waters.
To do a general commission merchants’ and selling agents’ business, and to buy, hold, own manufacture, purchase, sell or otherwise acquire or dispose of, either as principal or agent, or upon commission or otherwise, all kinds of personal property whatsoever, so far as the same may be necessary or incidental to these purposes, without limit as to amount.
“To buy, rent or otherwise acquire, to hold, own, develop, cultivate, improve, sell, lease, or otherwie dispose of, either as principal or agent, real estate and property without limit as to amount.
“To engage in and conduct the business of manufacturing, distributing and selling, at wholesale and retail as occasion may arise, including a general mail order business through any medium, and by any means whatsoever in the interest of the corporation, proprietary remedies, cosmetics and lotions, and other preparations of like character and any and all products of this corporation, together with the substances and ingredients of which they are composed.
“To apply for, obtain, register, lease, purchase or otherwise acqure, and to hold, own, se, operate, introduce, sell, assign or otherwise dispose of, any trade names, trade-marks, patents, inventions, improvements, copyrights, formulas and secret proesses used in connection with and secured under Letters patent of the United States or elsewhere or otherwise, and to eexercise, develop, grant licenses in respect of ortherwise turn to account any trade names, trade marks, patents, licenses, processes and the like, or any such property and rights, grants, franchises, privileges, permits, or concessions by the Gpvernment of the United States, any State, Territory, Colony, Possession, Division of Municiplaity thereof, and of any other Country or nation, subject to Legislative or Gobernmental authority when and where necessary.
o; o;ÜTo buy, lease, own, hold or otherwise acquire, sell or otherwise pispose of, steamboats, steamships, vessels with sail or other motive power to carry passengers and freight upon the high seas, and from port to port in this State to a foreign port, or to port or ports in other States, or upon any waterswhere such corporation may navigate.
“To acqire and undertake the buiness, good will, rights, property, franchise and assets of any other perso, firm, association or corporation on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon, and to pay for same in cash stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other securities or property of this corporation or otherwise and to borrow or raise money without limit as to amount by the issue of or uon warrants, stoc, bonds, debentures, notes, or other negotiable instruments or otherwise secured by mortgage or mortgage upon the property and franchise of the Company or otherwise, and sell the same for the purpose of obtaining money with which to enlarge and caarry on the business of the Company or any part thereof and for the purchase of any real or personal property therefor, and in the conduct of the business of the Company to purchase, acquire, possess, own, hold, sell, transfer, assign, mortgage, pledge, echange, or otherwise dispose of shares of the capital stock of this or any other corporation or orporations, created under the laws of this State, any other State, territory, country or nation, and to exercise while owner of such stocks, all the rights, powers and privileges, including the right to vote thereon, which natural persons being the owners of such stock, might, could, would or should exercise.
“To enter into, make, perform and carr out contracts of every sort and kind pertaining to the business and purposes of this corporation with any person, firm, association, corporation, public and private, municipal or politic, as the corporation shall think fit, and for which purposes of the business of this corporation to draw, make, accept, execute and issue, promissory notes, hills of exchange, warrants, bonds, debentures and other negotiable or transferrable instruments, purchase, hold and reissue shares of its capital stock and in general to de any or all things eherein set forth or otherwise permitted by the Statutes of the State of Maine, to the same extent as natural persons might or could do. It is the intention that the objects and powers specified in this Charter shall not except, as where otherwise expressed, be in any wise limited or restricted by reference to or inference from an section of this Charter, but that the objects and powers specified n this charter shall be regarded as independent objects and powers to be exerised and enjoyed by this company together with all such other powers and objects as are conferred by he laws of the State of Maine upon corporations, provided same are not contrary to the provisions of the laws of the State of Maine, relating to business corporations.”
The amount of capital stock (all common stock [$10/share], no preferred) was $300,000. The following individuals each purchased 1 share of the original shares:
John H. Prescott (Bar Harbor)
E. N. Benson (Bar Harbor)
W. H. Parker (Bar Harbor)
B. E. Whitney (Bar Harbor)
William Douglass (Bar Harbor)
The five original directors of the corporation were: John H. Prescott, E. N. Benson (Clerk), W. H. Parker, B. E. Whitney (President), and William Douglass (Treasurer).
1905: newspaper article describing business:
1906 August 8: newspaper advertisement:
[original date?]: Red Rock Spring foundation:
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[original date?]: Red Rock Spring trough:
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[date?]: broken and discarded bottles:
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