RIDLONVILLE.  

IN 1894 GEORGE W. RIDLON WHO CAME TO MEXICO FROM WOODSTOCK, BOUGHT A LARGE TRACT OF LAND ON THE ANDROSCOGGIN AND ORGANIZED THE SHAW-RIDLON LAND CO.  THIS LAND WAS IN MEXICO AND THE COMPANY LAID IT OUT IN BUILDING LOTS, ERECTED 30 NEAT LOOKING COTTAGES AND A HOTEL, NAMED HOTEL RIDLON, AND THUS THE SETTLEMENT WE KNOW AS RIDLONVILLE BEGAN.

RIDLON WAS PRESIDENT OF THE RUMFORD FALLS BRICK CO. AS WELL AS THE ONE OF THE COMPANY'S ORGANIZERS.  MARRIED TWICE, HIS FIRST WIFE WAS MISS GERTIE OWEN OF WOODSTOCK WHOM HE MARRIED IN OCT. 1883.  SHE DIED ON AUGUST 31, 1885, LEAVING A SON CLARENCE L. RIDLON.  HIS SECOND WIFE WAS WINNIE FULLER OF PARIS WHOM HE WED IN 1891 AND THEY HAD A DAUGHTER, BERTHA A. IN 1894 GEORGE RIDLON WAS CITY COMMISSIONER.

JAMES R. TUCKER, IN 1895, WAS THE "VERY URBANE" PROPRIETOR OF HOTEL RIDLON AND HE ALSO SERVED AS DEPUTY SHERIFF FOR SIX YEARS.

THE CENTURY WAS DRAWING TO A CLOSE.  PEOPLE WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE 20TH CENTURY WITH GREAT DREAMS.