Woodstead Dairy

Bar Harbor

Harry Woods was a real self promoter. He started Woodstead Dairy in Lamoine and moved it to Bar Harbor Emery district not far from the Stone Barn after his farm on the Buttermilk Road in Lamoine burned.

He advertised heavily in the Bar Harbor times as you will see elsewhere on this site and feuded with an inspector about bacteria counts in a long letter to the editor. Tragically, his farm here on MDI also burned in 1933 or '34. a very sad story of a hard working dairyman and family.

Other Names Associated With This Dairy: Harry woods

Dairy History

The following was provided by Anne Stocking of the Lamoine Historical Society:

Harry Woods started Woodstead Dairy in Lamoine in 1921. His farm was on the east side of Buttermilk Road. The house burned at some point - I don't have an exact date.

Sometime in the early to mid-1930s Woodstead Dairy was moved to Salisbury Cove on MDI. I don't know if this was before or after the house burned, but that certainly might have precipitated a move. I suspect, though, that the move was planned.

The early ads and bottle caps list an Ellsworth phone number with a Lamoine address. In 1929, the dairy still had an Ellsworth phone number, but a Bar Harbor P.O. box. By 1932, both phone number and the P.O. box were in Bar Harbor.

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Woodstead Dairy - R. V. Luce bottle cap
When Harry Woods moved to Bar Harbor he probably sold or turned over his Ellsworth and Lamoine routes to R.V. Luce - someone whose history needs to be tracked down still. That would make it a transition cap.