Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Tea Room

"The Tea Room Clevie and Mary Trask, Swan's Island, ca. 1940Swan's Island Historical Society 253 Harbor Road is now known best as the popular…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry Waiting for the first ferry run, Swan's Island, 1960Swan's Island Historical Society The William S."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Exhibits

"Exhibits Staples brothers waiting for the bus, Swan's Island, ca. 1955Swan's Island Historical Society In creating our exhibits, especially…"

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

"… Savage family land, loading his schooners with lumber and trading in ports such as Boston, but also coasted as far South as Jacksonville, Florida…"

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"… sell the logs to citizens who were in need of lumber. People used logs to make houses,build ships, create fires, heat their homes, and cook food."

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"After that, the planks were sent to the lumber company to be sold to anyone who needing to build houses, sheds, and porches, etc."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… Porter in Topsham, where they opened a store and lumber and shipbuilding business. Beginning in 1795, he became active in local politics…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"Lumber and fish were bought and sold; fishing fleets sailed to the Grand Banks fishing grounds; and ships sailed to England, the West Indies and…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"He was paid in lumber, a common form of pay at the time. By that time the school had one official school, this was in the Prouts Neck section of…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"Trees cut for lumber near Walnut Hill village were used to build ships in Yarmouth’s harbor; farms produced crops that were sold in the village and…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… Industries responsible for coastal settlement Lumbering, fisheries, agriculture, shipbuilding, shipping and quarrying provided the livelihoods for…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"Plenty of trees and finished lumber were available. The first sawmill was built on Union River in 1768, and soon after, sawmills appeared on Patten…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… than 850 men to harvest 24 million board feet of lumber. Abner Coburn, who also served as Maine's 30th Governor in 1863-64, was additionally…"

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

"He sawed long and short lumber, shingles, clapboards and other products in this mill. Mr. Elliott was not the only person with ideas of sawing, and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"They were truly "summering" in Maine. Lumber Mill at the Mill Pond, Somesville, ca. 1905Mount Desert Island Historical Society Somesville was…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… of his brother Ralph, use the barn timbers and lumber to frame and construct a 13-stall automobile storage garage for their Asticou Garage summer…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… Indies, “trading largely in sugar, molasses and lumber principally.” He was the owner of the first ship, the schooner Dispatch, built in Hampden in…"

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

"In her letters to John when he was away at a lumber camp in winter, Ida describes daily challenges: the cow drying up, firewood stolen from the…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"… time each season, or until a sufficient amount of lumber had been cut. Wilson purchased the old mill about 1875 and used it as a saw, stave, and…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… interests of the time, farming, ship-building, lumbering and shore fishing. And in Surry, as I remember it in those days, there was really much…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… of a steamboat wharf, two dozen small cottages, a lumber mill, a brickyard, and a coal, as well as several small stores."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… people benefited from labor opportunities in lumbering and agriculture. They produced ash tool handles, canoes and paddles, and the ash baskets for…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"A stick of lumber fell from the saw horses as Haley was walking by and struck him with great force. It hit the ground hard enough that Dr. E.M."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… line transported laths, shingles, clapboards, and lumber in addition to passengers. Trains ran three times daily and the fare was 37 cents one-way."