Keywords: river drivers
Item 4200
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print
Item 149019
Log Drivers on the Saco River, East Limington, 1923
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1923 Location: Limington Media: Glass negative
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Logging on Kennebec River
I became interested in the Kennebec River log drive when my grandfather would tell me stories. He remembers watching the logs flow down the river from his home in Fairfield, a small town along the Kennebec River.
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World
"From there, the river drivers guided the logs to Bangor and boom operators sorted the logs. Finally, the lumberman sawed the logs into lumber for…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company
"Steam and Boom Company, Log Driver's Shack, Hallowell, ca.1890Hubbard Free Library Raftsmen often in red shirts, stood on little platforms at either…"
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima
