Keywords: hauling logs
Item 23232
Log hauling, Island Falls, 1896
Contributed by: Island Falls Historical Society Date: 1896-01-24 Location: Island Falls Media: Photographic print
Item 10184
Horses and sled hauling logs, St. Agatha, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Ste. Agathe Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Saint Agatha Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.
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.
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3
"I then hauled my load up to the road that leads to Sewall Ayers. There I was met by Ayers with 2 yoke of steers and by Whitman with 2 yoke more, they…"
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford
"… brought the firemen, their teams of horses to haul the equipment, and the hoses from both Rumford and the adjoining town of Mexico."
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.
