Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"A settler could either collect and sell the plain wood ash, or they could blanch it in a large vat, and boil it down to produce pot-ash (potash)."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rustic furniture, Bangor, 1865

"… "some curiosities in cedar crooks" in the woods, cut them and found someone hauling a load of wood to carry the cedar out of the woods for him."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… around the lake was cut, the lumbermen began cutting around Folsom and Upper Ponds, sending the wood down the streams for transport to the saw…"

Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand

"Here the largest slab cut from the quarry is raised to be placed on a cart or wagon for transportation."

Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"Wire mills still exist today, but workers use high-tech machines to cut the wire and shrink it to a certain diameter."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5

"After they cut down all the trees in the 1790s, they built the house on a ledge. The foundation was made out of granite blocks, wood and posts and…"

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"The Racing Knife marked or shaped a cut of an object. The Reeming Iron was an iron wedge used to wedge up seems before caulking it."

Historic Hallowell - Energy

"They might have cut down more wood if more people were getting wood stoves, and fireplaces. So then there would be less trees."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… local men with associated industries such as cutting wood for the kilns, or making hoop poles for the casks."

Skowhegan Community History - Early Settlement in Skowhegan

"… too shallow to go on by boat, so they started to cut a path through the thick woods of Maine. It took them three weeks to go 20 miles."

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."

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"… and far between because houses were made of heavy cut wood from the forest regions around Hallowell and the logs that floated down the Kennebec."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Working in Maine

"… forestry and has twelve acres of land that he cuts for firewood. He enjoys gardening and has his own Christmas tree farm where he grows 700 trees a…"

Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"… Andrew Jackson monetary policy, his foray into cutting cord wood, picking up lumber and other material along the Penobscot River, a clam voyage to…"

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"… Plymouth engine and they used the mill to cut lumber to build a shed over it. Due to the sub-par performance of the engine, they upgraded the mill…"

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"Wood wasnʼt expensive at all, for it was natural and was in major production, but metal, on the other hand,was hard to find and was not in major…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"In winter, they might go north to cut wood. Early settlers of Blue Hill were forced to be resourceful in order to survive."

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"… he selected the spot where wood was to be cut, and later dumped in rivers. If it was deep in the forest, roads were needed to be built."

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"The woodworking shop milled lumber and produced cut lumber and moldings for carpenters and cabinetmakers, and also produced wood-block patterns for…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 1: 1885-1899, Katahdin Iron Works, Silver Lake Hotel

"… Works." The large furnace was fueled by wood, cut nearby and turned into charcoal. Throughout the history of iron making at the site, problems with…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… 1874 - 1900 In 1874 state aid was prematurely cut off from the colony of New Sweden causing a group of newspapermen to publicize the poverty and…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"The lumber company would cut trees into smooth slabs and send them to stores. The company built a boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row…"

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… Town.” The Globe wrote that Lubeckers were cutting down their fruit trees to keep neighbors from freezing to death and that “business was at a…"