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Keywords: Town forest

Historical Items

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Item 104415

Logging with oxen on Town Forest land, Troy, ca. 1940

Courtesy of Neil Piper, an individual partner Date: circa 1940 Location: Troy Media: Photographic print

Item 104410

Planning for Troy town forest, ca. 1940

Courtesy of Neil Piper, an individual partner Date: 1940 Location: Troy Media: Photographic print

Item 104417

Unity High School field trip to Troy Town Forest, ca. 1945

Courtesy of Neil Piper, an individual partner Date: circa 1945 Location: Troy Media: Photograph

Online Exhibits

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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.

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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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Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers

Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"Even today this is true for the nine towns of the Androscoggin River Valley. While the valley’s shoeshops, tanneries, and novelty mills are gone, the…"

Site Page

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s

"Once nearby forests were depleted, local shipyard owners purchased rights to great tracts of land for hardwood supplies in Georgia, South Carolina…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding

"… the George's River to reach the dense inland forests. Great timbers were transported back to England for use as masts in the King’s ships."

My Maine Stories

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Story

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars

Story

Canadian immigrant founds worlds largest paper company in 1898
by Hugh J. Chisholm

Hugh J. Chisholm founded International Paper, which was the world's largest paper company in 1898.

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A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker

Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference