Maine Memory Network

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."

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"Edging took the trim off the logs. Finally, the logs were dried, planed, and shipped to the market. Stickney & Page Dam, Cascade, Hallowell…"

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…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… bigger and thicker ones were used for the softest logs while the thinner axes were used for the hardest logs."

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."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… D., “Some Historical Data on the Maine Sardine Industry”, Maine Sardine Industry History. Varney, George A., A Gazetteer of the State of Maine…"

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…"

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."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 2 of 17

"… During the Civil War, Maine laborers worked in logging, milling, papermaking, built ships, fished, and processed fish; mined and cut granite and…"

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec

"… Commerce on the Kennebec includes treacherous logging on the Kennebec, shipbuilding in Hallowell, very famous Hallowell sea captains, the history…"

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"Unmarked logs were free for the taking. Bunk houses with adjoining cook and mess shacks were erected on rafts and anchored on the Chelsea side of the…"

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."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 2 of 2

"… & settlement at Winter Harbor Piles of logs along the Saco River, ca. 1910McArthur Public Library The earliest settlers lived almost…"

Historic Hallowell - Earning Our Keep

"… Our Keep Hallowell Boom and Steam Co., Log Drivers, Hallowell, ca. 1890Hubbard Free Library How do you earn your daily bread? How do you…"

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"These logs at most burned slowly. There were also no matches at the time. But even so, the Cascade hand tub was a valuable asset to the Hallowell…"

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…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"He cleared land and built a log house near what is now called Bounty Cove, mid-point on the island near the Narrows."

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."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… followed the trail to the last house, which was log and belonged to Mr. Rumford Smith. They followed a west-north-west compass route and crossed…"

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec Citations

"N.p.: n.p., n.d. Harris, Larry. Logging Tools. n.d. 11 Apr. 2011 <http://www.theaxehole.com/the_axe_hole_april_2011_006.htm>. Jackson, Gordan."

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

"A full size log cabin was erected as the center of the exhibit in 1895 and affectionately nicknamed “Camp Maine Central.” Lumber for the cabin was…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… and during one flood, the boom chain that held logs broke, and the logs washed over the dam during high water, smashing nearly every window in the…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… In 1795, an East Surry schoolmaster went from log house to log house teaching the pupils one-on-one to know the letters and to say the catechism."

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 3 of 3

"EVENTS Log Drives (Text pending) Hardwood Products, Guilford, ca. 1930Guilford Historical Society Annual River Drive, Guilford, ca."