Keywords: Lumber camps
Item 13586
Crandall's Lumber Camp, Millinocket, 1889
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1889-12-29 Location: Millinocket Media: Photographic print
Item 135680
Don't drink the vanilla, Lumber camp, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Media: photographic print
Item 151776
Great Northern Paper Company sleeping camp, 1913
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913 Client: Great Northern Paper Company Architect: Great Northern Paper Company
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Cooks and Cookees: Lumber Camp Legends
Stories and tall tales abound concerning cooks and cookees -- important persons in any lumber camp, large or small.
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"Huge shell middens have been found along the shores where natives camped for hundreds of years. After their initial scare by Captain Church's men…"
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
Story
My career as a wildlife biologist
by Ron Joseph
Rural Maine provided the foundation of a rewarding career as a wildlife biologist.
