Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… Byron was known for its forests of maple, birch, spruce, and pine, and logging was a major industry."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Greenleaf Cilley

"1st ed. Vol. 1. Ser. 1. Spruce Head. This book is about the Cilley family during the Civil War. It discusses the history of the Cilley family…"

Millinocket Fire Department

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Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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Monson Historical Society

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Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"The white spruce is common to our area and is sometimes referred to as a cat spruce. This was the first tree: from a private citizen and not from a…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"… maple, beech, and ash, while the valleys held spruce, fir, and cedar. Then in 1861, the State of Maine, which had been losing its younger…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Shipping

"On August 9, 1804, Knox noted “60 spruce knees bought of Mark Davis at 4/6 each for the sloop now building.” When Knox settled accounts with Edward…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - JP Cilley Ledger From Post

"Spruce Head, Me: Seven Coin P, 2002. This book contains the personal letters of the members of the Cilley family to one another."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"The booms were tree-length spruce logs, chained together with heavy chains, called “boom chains,” and these booms were chained to the piers."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… "Yankee Spruce," "White Mountain," "200 Lump Spruce," "Licorice Lulu," "Trunk Spruce", "Sugar Cream," "Four-in-Hand," and "Biggest and Best." In…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"The Polish, Lithuanian, and Irish folks in the Spruce Street/Knox Street Penobscot Street areas had the Pettengill School."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… carnival, first at its ski jump location on Spruce Street, then at its Scotty’s Mountain location on Route 120, and finally at its present facility…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"Instead of pine, they turned to cutting spruce for lumber and pulp, as well as hemlock for the tanning industry."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Spruce logs were mortised together for cabin construction and hand hewn cedar shingles were used for roofing."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"The grounds were spruced up with concrete walks, granite steps and iron seats. On July 17, 1904, the Hallowell Granite Company installed the Replica…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"The town was awarded a $400,000 grant to spruce up downtown, Interface was awarded the E.P.A. National Merit Award, a new brick and bronze war…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… Hutchins and Little to the east; Warren, Spruce, 700 Acre, Minot, Middle, Job, Lime, Lasell, Ensign to the south; Ram and Seal to the west."

Acadian Archives

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… (sic) ash, elm, basswood, pine, hemlock, fir, spruce, cedar with some oak on the highlands and hackmetack on the lowlands.” (History of Farmington…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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