Keywords: Early Logging
Item 105190
Peter Karnes logging yard, Haynesville, ca. 1914
Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner Date: circa 1914 Location: Haynesville Media: Photograph
Item 23072
Boom chain, Ambajejus, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Ambajejus Boom House Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Ambajejus Media: Steel
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Logging on Kennebec River
I became interested in the Kennebec River log drive when my grandfather would tell me stories. He remembers watching the logs flow down the river from his home in Fairfield, a small town along the Kennebec River.
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
"The lombard log hauler would carry forty thousand logs to one hundred thousand logs. It had a ski in the front for snow, two tracks in the back for…"
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive
"The logs sometimes got caught up on rocks, stopping the ones behind or even forcing them under. The loggers used poles, booms and even dynamite to…"
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference
