Keywords: Birch Point
Item 22400
Birch Point, Island Falls, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Island Falls Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Island Falls Media: Postcard
Item 7782
The Birch Chapel, Pine Point-Great Lake, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Belgrade Lakes Media: Photoprint
Exhibit
Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.
Exhibit
Gifts From Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms
According to legend, the Great Spirit created Gluskabe, who shaped the world of the Native People of Maine, and taught them how to use and respect the land and the resources around them. This exhibit celebrates the gifts of Gluskabe with Maine Indian art works from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators
"… from the Natives for amounts of rum, and birch bark deeds were given the buyers. Mt. Desert Island was a wilderness when these early settlers…"
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Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 1 of 2
"They sawed 4 foot bolt wood, mostly white birch and some maple. They used different types of wood for custom orders."
