Keywords: tote roads
Item 8477
Tote sleds, Maine woods, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Patten Lumbermen's Museum Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print
Item 8421
Old tote road, Dole Brook to Pittston, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Patten Lumbermen's Museum Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print
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.
Exhibit
Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers
Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.
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Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property
"One can picture the young family toting water and feed to the barn animals. Phebe played the piano and left behind her music books, including the…"
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
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Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
