Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… made his living coasting as a schooner captain, logging Savage family land, loading his schooners with lumber and trading in ports such as Boston…"

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…"

Maine State Museum

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"… created by people wading across the water with logs to build a bridge to get to Upsala. Upsala is what Stockholm was known as when it first was…"

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…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"With mechanization of logging and potato farming, the tribe’s economic role disappeared. The people were left to fend for themselves without any…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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