Keywords: Boom pier
Item 78691
Boom pier construction, Rumford, 1893
Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: 1893 Location: Rumford Media: Photographic print
Item 80693
Boom pier construction, Androscoggin River, Rumford, 1893
Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: 1893 Location: Rumford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.
Exhibit
After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls
"The booms were used to channel the logs (keeping them together) down the river to the mills. The spikes anchored the logs or timbers together in the…"
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
