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Historical Items

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Item 19004

Spruce gum collector, Presque Isle, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Presque Isle Media: Metal

Item 102439

Spruce woods, Stanley Hill, Kingfield, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Kingfield Media: Lantern slide, hand colored

Item 19062

Spruce tree in pine stump, Pleasant Pond, 1922

Contributed by: Maine Forest Service Date: 1922-06-19 Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

A Focus on Trees

Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.

Exhibit

Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees

While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.

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 Pages

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Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"This was the first tree: from a private citizen and not from a National Forest; and ever used from East of the Mississippi."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"The booms were tree-length spruce logs, chained together with heavy chains, called “boom chains,” and these booms were chained to the piers."

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… "Yankee Spruce," "White Mountain," "200 Lump Spruce," "Licorice Lulu," "Trunk Spruce", "Sugar Cream," "Four-in-Hand," and "Biggest and Best." In…"