Souvenir spoon: Rumford Falls
United States
1895-1915
Measurements
3-3/4 in x 3/4 in 5/8 in
Materials
Silver
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
Accession Number
1971.1129
Inscription
“RUMFORD / FALLS” is in the bowl. “STERLING” is stamped into the back of the handle.
Provenance
Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner
Comments
The spoon, with an ornate handle decorated with many C scrolls, has a plain bowl bearing the name Rumford Falls. The dramatic falls, on the Androscoggin River in Maine, are in Rumford, a small town midway between Portland and the Canadian border to the northwest. Access to the town must have been a challenge until a paper manufacturing mill was established there in 1893. Rail connection followed, as did prosperity for the town.
