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Keywords: Lumberjacks

Historical Items

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Item 20571

Logging Camp, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print

Item 34348

Piles of logs along the Saco River, ca. 1910

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Biddeford; Saco Media: Postcard

Item 100443

Old headworks, Ambajejus Lake, 1870

Contributed by: Norcross Heritage Trust Date: circa 1870 Location: T1 R9 WELS Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town

Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.

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Music in Maine - Music in Maine

"Lumberjack work chants and sailor shanties differ from operas sung by 19th century Maine divas. Yet they are all uniquely Maine sounds."

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Music in Maine - Community Music

"… songs relate to work individual work like lumberjacks and loggers, and sometimes warn against job dangers or teach about techniques required to be…"

Site Pages

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Norcross Heritage Trust

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"Lumberjacks had spiked boots that made it so they wouldn’t slip on the logs, which was extremely important."

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Lincoln, Maine - Aroostook War

"… (also known as the “Pork and Beans War” and the “Lumberjack War”), I would be nervous if I was a wife to one of the men that went to the war."