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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…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"In 1929 Curtis Wright Corporation built a nearby log cabin intended as a barracks for a summer flight school."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Early 1600s ships' logs had accounts of fishing and fur trading along the coast. Fish, particularly cod, was abundant and a very profitable commodity…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… and its tributaries roiled with a winter’s logs? Each of the 12 towns in the Western Foothills School District (RSU 10) has its own history and…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"A rambling vernacular Greek Revival farmstead was built on this road by Joel White. In the 1850s it was Morrill Farm."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"A school building was erected on Roxbury Road and one near Highland Terrace before 1850. The next to come was the Walton School, then the Kingdom…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"Selectmen, Town Clerk, and Tax Collector, Bondsmen, Road Surveyors, Hog Reaves and other positions were elected to see that the town would be on…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"If the road was not kept in good repair, the plantation was fined by the county, which added to the tax burden."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"Years later their efforts turned into the Coos Road, running from northern Vermont down the Androscoggin and Sandy River valleys to Hallowell."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"Horses pulled the stage over roads that are closed today. Bowery Corner, an old intersection connecting various roads in the Severy Hill area, put up…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"He lived on a farm on Roxbury Road in Mexico. John joined the Marine Corps Reserve in 1943 after graduating from Mexico High School."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"… stood on the corner of Main Street and Roxbury Road and sold medical supplies, codfish, tea, molasses, rum, hardware, and bolts of cloth."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"Those who lived in the Swain Road and Eaton Hill section of Woodrowville had their own local facility."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… and finally at its present facility on Glover Road. The Black Mountain Ski Resort now features skiing for the family at affordable rates, a tubing…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"I then hauled my load up to the road that leads to Sewall Ayers. There I was met by Ayers with 2 yoke of steers and by Whitman with 2 yoke more, they…"

Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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East Grand School

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… Society The Lowell homestead was on the Whittier Road, (now # 655 Whittier Road). “The orchards had 1,000 or more trees and each fall Lowell…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"Aghast at the prospect of a logging operation along the main road into Asticou and Northeast Harbor, Charles travelled to New York City in the night…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… captain would write it all down in his captains log which contains the item, how much it costs, and how many there is of the item."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73 Log Cabin, New Sweden, 1938New Sweden Historical Society In 1870, the original 160-acre lots were…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"When the ice went out in the spring of the year the logs were dumped into the Kennebec where they floated to the mills."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"… settlers busied themselves with fishing, logging, farming, and boatbuilding. They set up fish weirs and fences."

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 2 of 3

"… appeared there wouldn’t be enough water to drive logs. One night it rained all night and the wind blew very hard."