Date: 1865
K. Stevens, as to pre serve the neighboring buildings, and even the factory store, only twelve feet distant, already on fire.  Nothing was saved from the factory, which had been lately purchased and fitted up with new machinery by Isaac Snaith, McGee, and Thomas Thacker, from Dover, N. H. ; who, though partially insured, were thought at the time to be losers to the amount of $15,000.  It was not known how the fire originated, but subsequent events in connection with Mr. Snaith and the Thomaston Bank, led some to doubt whether the fire was not kindled intentionally by the owners.