Keywords: Logged off lands
Item 104410
Planning for Troy town forest, ca. 1940
Courtesy of Neil Piper, an individual partner Date: 1940 Location: Troy Media: Photographic print
Item 8400
Daicey Dam on the Wissataquoik, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Patten Lumbermen's Museum Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
Exhibit
The Establishment of the Troy Town Forest
Seavey Piper, a selectman, farmer, landowner, and leader of the Town of Troy in the 1920s through the early 1950s helped establish a town forest on abandoned farm land in Troy. The exhibit details his work over ten years.
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…"
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid
"… farmer and needed to return to the hard labor of logging. The next winter he went with a crew of men to work at a location twelve miles into the…"
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
