Keywords: Wood Hauling
Item 23232
Log hauling, Island Falls, 1896
Contributed by: Island Falls Historical Society Date: 1896-01-24 Location: Island Falls Media: Photographic print
Item 13883
Hauling logs on a bobsled, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1895 Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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.
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.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad
"Coal was also hauled into Franklin County by train. The depot in Strong was located on the street that we call Norton Hill today."
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Rustic furniture, Bangor, 1865
"… crooks" in the woods, cut them and found someone hauling a load of wood to carry the cedar out of the woods for him."
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
