Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"This was the first tree: from a private citizen and not from a National Forest; and ever used from East of the Mississippi."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"The booms were tree-length spruce logs, chained together with heavy chains, called “boom chains,” and these booms were chained to the piers."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… "Yankee Spruce," "White Mountain," "200 Lump Spruce," "Licorice Lulu," "Trunk Spruce", "Sugar Cream," "Four-in-Hand," and "Biggest and Best." In…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"Instead of pine, they turned to cutting spruce for lumber and pulp, as well as hemlock for the tanning industry."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Spruce logs were mortised together for cabin construction and hand hewn cedar shingles were used for roofing."

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"The town was awarded a $400,000 grant to spruce up downtown, Interface was awarded the E.P.A. National Merit Award, a new brick and bronze war…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… (sic) ash, elm, basswood, pine, hemlock, fir, spruce, cedar with some oak on the highlands and hackmetack on the lowlands.” (History of Farmington…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… settlers arrived on Islesboro, they found mostly spruce and a scattering of beech, birch and maple trees."

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