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Historical Items

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Item 100965

Yarding logs, Norway, 1939

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

Item 20184

Log drive, Island Falls, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Island Falls Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Island Falls Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Laboring in Maine

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.

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Aroostook County Railroads

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.

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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.

Site Pages

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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…"

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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."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4

"… Star Coater, which would be placed in the north yard of the Rumford Mill. This addition would require many alterations and additions to processes…"

My Maine Stories

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Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life

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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.