Keywords: hemlock bark
Item 8441
Old Hemlock Bark Days on the BAR, 1890-1895
Contributed by: Patten Lumbermen's Museum Date: 1890 Media: Photographic print
Item 29330
Lumber piled on town wharf, Blue Hill, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Blue Hill Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Blue Hill 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
Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"… birch, beach, (sic) ash, elm, basswood, pine, hemlock, fir, spruce, cedar with some oak on the highlands and hackmetack on the lowlands.” (History…"
