Keywords: lumber piles
Item 34348
Piles of logs along the Saco River, ca. 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Biddeford; Saco Media: Postcard
Item 29365
Milled lumber piles, Biddeford or Saco, ca. 1915
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1915 Location: Biddeford; Saco Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Washington County Through Eastern's Eye
Images taken by itinerant photographers for Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, a real photo postcard company, provide a unique look at industry, commerce, recreation, tourism, and the communities of Washington County in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit
"… building." The details also noted that the "huge piles of charred rubble [were] gone and plans to rebuild were underway.” Today a new photography…"
Site Page
Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 2
"From a cost standpoint, circular sawed lumber made possible the large barns required by the emerging dairy industry in the post-Civil War period."
Story
First night on the pulp pile at zero degrees, to mill foreman
by Arthur Benedetto
I worked my way up in International Paper, moving from the pick ax pile to a foreman on computers
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
