P&C Founder George T. Carlisle History: 1930 - 1949 1930 Prentiss & Carlisle contracts to deliver a total of 100,000 cords of peeled spruce and fir over ten years to the Maine Seaboard Paper Company in Bucksport. The price — $15 per cord for the first year — includes $2 per cord for freight. P&C contractors load all the wood by hand, one stick at a time, into the closed box cars. 1932 Productivity slows to about 60 percent of pre-Depression levels, and wood prices per cord drop as well. To combat the difficult times, P&C produces county maps based on timberland maps and sells them to sporting goods and other stores. 1933 Henry Prentiss, the last “Prentiss” to reside in Bangor, dies in November. 1934 George T. becomes president of P&C. 1938 The company adds many acres to both its management and ownership land base — largely thanks to the vision of long-time P&C stockholder and vice president Philip P. Clement and George D. Carlisle, who joins his father’s company several years after graduating from the University of Maine, also with a forestry degree. George D.’s other responsibilities include cruising timberland, harvesting, surveying, and overseeing river drives. 1940 George D. supervises the harvest of “defense wood,” small-sized, white birch that is made into cones to protect the noses of large gun shells during shipping. 1942 Always mindful of serving their clients better — many of whom are facing rising estate taxes — Prentiss & Carlisle helps ease the cost of operations by adding logging services to their timberland management business. 1945/1946 George T. Carlisle and former Maine Governor Percival P. Baxter meet and correspond as Baxter actively acquires land to establish Baxter State Park. 1947 Prentiss & Carlisle purchases and restores the William Augustus Blake House, still the home of its offices today, at 107 Court Street, Bangor. The house, designed in 1858 by renowned architect Calvin Ryder, is used as a home by the Blake family until 1922 and is willed to Frederick Adams and then to his daughters before being sold to the American Legion Holding Company in 1946. 1948 George D. Carlisle is elected mayor of Bangor.