Keywords: Kennebec Log Driving Company
Item 36209
High Water, Kennebec River, 1884
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1884 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 66971
Hollingsworth & Whitney log piling process, Winslow, 1936
Contributed by: Winslow Historical Preservation Committee Date: 1936 Location: Winslow Media: Photographic print
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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.
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Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
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Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company
"Steam and Boom Company, Log Driver's Shack, Hallowell, ca.1890Hubbard Free Library Raftsmen often in red shirts, stood on little platforms at either…"
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"The Steam and Boom Company was where all the logs got delivered and collected and also contained floating logs timbered from nearby forests."
