Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"Even then, he still logged. Evidently, logging was a very big part of his life. Drawing of the Corro House, built by Jacob Stinchfield Drawn by…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"Along with ice, logs flowed down the river and created a dam, causing the water to back up. When the water overflowed onto the banks, the Great…"

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

"… the letter, a corduroy road--a road of parallel logs packed with sand and laid over a swampy area--was being constructed near White Oaks."

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"Groups Log Cabin and Hard Cider Club, Portland, ca. 1850Maine Historical Society The Maine Historical Society Collection contains several…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"Finally, the lumberman sawed the logs into lumber for shipment. Companies from around the world came to Bangor for the huge amount of revenue waiting…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"They built log houses with simple furniture, surviving on the island’s resources through long winters with only the occasional sailboat connecting…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"Mills built along the railroad made Strong the logging community it is today. Sometimes the trains used two engines to haul a big load of wood."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"The earliest logs were cut from around the falls. By the end of the 18th century the logs were being sent down from Fryeburg and points north."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond

"A.C. and Emily Savage and their descendants certainly seemed to live up to legends of Yankee thrift with the recycling of buildings within the…"

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 - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"Goods were needed to support the agricultural and logging businesses. One newspaper article states, “Due to the amount of livestock, it takes a lot…"

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

"Champlain Club camp and yacht log, Mount Desert Island, 1880Mount Desert Island Historical Society They spent their days sailing and rowing across…"

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…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… in putting down roots, building a primitive log cabin structure near the East side of Harbor Brook where it outlets into the ocean."

Kennebunkport Historical Society

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"… Stream so they could use the river to transport logs. It opened in the 1930s and was shut down around 1990 due to foreign imports that were cheaper…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"to stop logging on land near Lower Hadlock Pond and adjacent to Route 198 that culminated in the conservation in perpetuity along a two mile corridor…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"They built their log houses during the summer, went back to Beverly and Andover Massachusetts before winter and came the following year with their…"

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…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"Then the calm of peace and the growth of log huts, the ring of the ax in the great forest, and the hum of life in the home of the hardy pioneer."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"Savage and/or his neighbors fashioning those logs sometime in late 1854 or early 1855 in time to build around them a new home to move into by…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… curling smoke and dying flame they erected their log-cabins and hovels, and thither conducted in triumph their wives and children." (A History of…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… one resource says that John was born in a log-cabin in Farmington. John, in his early years, tended toward wild and reckless."