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Manners Sutton Road in the early 19th century and the Turner family had a farm on what is now the Kenneth Irving property on Kennebecasis Drive. The Ring family's boat service business started in the early 20th century by Grenville Ring and carried on after Grenville's death by his son Bob and now his grandson Jodie. Some families have lived in Millidgeville for several generations. There are still members of families who were living in Millidgeville prior to 1950 when development of the area started after the Millidgeville Airport shut down. There are members of the
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father and mother Lt. Col. G.G.K. (Gordon) Holder (World War I and World War II) and Edith (Kee) Holder bought the land from their son and lived there happily for half a century while "the
Colonel" operated a haulout and storage yard for pleasure craft until a disastrous fire destroyed many boats and the storage buildings. The property was later purchased by G.A.(Sandy) Robertson, a Millidgeville resident for half a century who developed the subdivision there now.
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Disaster ended the mill's operations on May 17, 1901. Three men were killed when the mill's main chimney fell. Two men, William Price and George McCluskey were over 100 feet high on the inside the chimney repairing the masonry and
Charles Wilson was inside the base of the chimney when it fell. The Mill never reopened and it burnt to the ground less than ten years later.
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Millidge sold his shipyard property to Edward D. Jewett in 1872. Jewett moved here from the US and had five sawmills on the lower reaches of the rivers (this would become his largest mill yard.) The mill employed close to 100 men in its heyday and many of them lived in mill houses on the property.
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Millidgeville through the years were a number of small stores including John Tobin's General Store in the late 19th century, Walter Vincent Sr.'s store at the NW end of Millidge Avenue and W. Roy Giggey's Grocery store on the NE end of Millidge Avenue in the early-to-mid 20th
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Lt. Cdr. G.G.K. (Don) Holder (WWII) purchased the Jewett Mill property from Jewett's heirs and started another shipyard following his service in the Second World War building sail yachts and small craft as the "Blue Peter Boat Works." The times weren't right and the business failed. Don Holder's
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The first airplane base in Saint John was the seaplane base across the street from the Royal
Kennebeccasis Yacht Club which operated from the early 1920s up until the late 1950s. Saint John's first true airport was built at Millidgeville. It opened in 1930 and was located in the area bounded by
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Millidgeville had fewer than 100 year round residents until the early 1950s. Millidgeville was largely a summer cottage area for Saint John residents who wanted to get out of the fog. Development started in the 1950s on the former airport property and spread from there. New streets including
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Millidge Avenue, Daniel Avenue, Marlin Drive, Woodward Avenue and Boars Head Road. The airport site was chosen because
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