Keywords: log yarding
Item 100965
Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1939 Location: Norway Media: Photographic print
Item 66971
Hollingsworth & Whitney log piling process, Winslow, 1936
Contributed by: Winslow Historical Preservation Committee Date: 1936 Location: Winslow Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.
Exhibit
Construction of the Bangor and Aroostook rail lines into northern Aroostook County in the early twentieth century opened the region to tourism and commerce from the south.
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive
"The logs sometimes got caught up on rocks, stopping the ones behind or even forcing them under. The loggers used poles, booms and even dynamite to…"
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls
"The log work it seems to me cannot be done most satisfactorily by day work as it is of the utmost importance that it be done perfectly."
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
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.
