Keywords: Pine long logs
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"Pine log drive on Machias River, ca. 1950Ambajejus Boom House Museum It was in the early 1900s when they logged and worked very hard along the…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron
"… for its forests of maple, birch, spruce, and pine, and logging was a major industry. The soil was quite good and yielded good crops of corn…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History
"By the 1860’s, much of the big pine in the region had been cut, and many of the American-born loggers moved west, where the trees were bigger and the…"
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Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area
"… later years transported great quantities of long logs, and later pulp, from far in the northern forests around Moosehead Lake, down to the lumber…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4
"… themselves as being from Dunstan, Oak Hill, Pine Point or other neighborhood until the 1990s. Rapid development started in the 1970s, as people…"
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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.”…"