About our Presenting Sponsor

In 1953, Clifton “Skip” Hammond borrowed $50 from his wife, Verna, bought a sawmill and started a lumber business in Belgrade, Maine. In the years since Hammond Lumber Company has grown into one of Maine’s largest independent building suppliers. In addition to the ever-expanding sawmill, there are now twenty-one retail stores around the state and also Hammond’s Maine Pine Log Homes division, which manufactures and markets log-home building packages.

Skip Hammond’s philosophy from the start was to saw straight, talk straight, and do more for his customer than the guy down the road would do. Son Donald, who started the retail stores in the late ‘60s, and grandson Michael, who has added highly successful product lines such as ShoreMaster Docks and spearheaded the company’s recent expansion, have followed suit.