Maine Memory Network

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"… Surry Historical Society From the coveted tall pine for ships' masts to the coastal cedar for shingles, Maine's forest land has been the source of…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"Patten's Bay, Patten's Pond and Patten's Pond Stream were named after him. In Samuel Wasson's Journal of East Surry, he attributes Jonathan Flye, an…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… Pond (Little Ellis) and Silver Lake (Ellis Pond or Roxbury Pond). Before Byron was named Byron it was called Skillertown, a name the Indians had…"

Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… “…maple, birch, beach, (sic) ash, elm, basswood, pine, hemlock, fir, spruce, cedar with some oak on the highlands and hackmetack on the lowlands.”…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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