Maine Memory Network

Norcross Heritage Trust

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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…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"They spent the third night on cots made from bows under a low shelter of trees before they found the camp."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Huge shell middens have been found along the shores where natives camped for hundreds of years. After their initial scare by Captain Church's men…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… Indians from the Pennacook tribe had a camp on the mountain in back of what is known as the Ira Wing farm."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… settled in 1764 by Shubael Williams who built a log house next to Bounty Cove near the center of the island."

Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"The Logbooks Champlain Society Camp log, Mount Desert Island, 1881Mount Desert Island Historical Society The Champlain Society logbooks, today…"

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

"… son John recalled that during his boyhood Indians camping nearby taught him how to make snowshoes, woodsplint baskets, and a scoop net for fishing."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"… the exhibit in 1895 and affectionately nicknamed “Camp Maine Central.” Lumber for the cabin was provided by Redington Lumber Company and there were…"

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 2 of 3

"… room, the garage, living quarters, and over-night camps of J.O. Buzzles were completely flooded. On Friday afternoon the ice jams in Sangerville…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… March 23, 1862Bangor Historical Society Camp near Potomac Creek Va. March 23 1863 Dear Mother Last nights Mail brought the ever welcome letter and…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… ice age hunters of mammoth and caribou, camped around Munsungan Lake and quarried high quality red, green, and gray chert (flint) which they used…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"He would spend the rest of his life preaching wherever he could find an audience. But his biggest audiences would come at the camp meetings that were…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Lawrence Cannery Camps, North Lubec, 1955Lubec Memorial Library In 1880 Moses P. Lawrence, Henry Dodge and Julius Wolff established a sardine…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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