Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"Maine's white pine, an ideal wood with many uses was used for masts for ships, lobster traps, and lumber for houses."

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

"Cappy The Cappy at Pine Point, Scarborough, 1951Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Harold Seal, the author’s grandfather, was in his…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"Web. 1 Jan 2010. (N) Maine: The Pine Tree State from prehistory to the present. Ed. Richard W. Judd, Edwin A. Churchill, Joel W. Eastman."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"The Village of Cockell: An Illustrated History of Pine Point, Maine. Wilmington, MA: Hampshire Press, 1988. Fogg, John D."

Tate House Museum

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"For more than one hundred years, the King’s Highway was the only land route between the Province of Maine and Massachusetts.(2) Milestone on…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Rapid development started in the 1970s, as people from other areas were attracted to Scarborough's abundant land and unique location."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"He was a station agent first at Pine Point and later at Oak Hill. Because he felt it was his duty to care for his invalid mother, it wasn’t until he…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gate no 2 design, Bangor, 1867

"… 9 of Scrap Book No 3, he wrote, "Rustic built of pine or cedar posts." The center of each side of the gate would be "filled with small round cedar…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's plow, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… the plow that he "went into the woods and found a pine tree with a root running out like a plough shear and I made a plough and covered the…"

Maine Central Institute

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Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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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…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"The soil was quite good and yielded good crops of corn, potatoes, wheat, oats, etc. Later, hops were grown and exported to the Boston area for beer…"

Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"… who spent nine days trying to run the Suburban Pines Motel in Windham without power while housing eight relatives, then when a guest was using a…"

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"When they got shipped down the Kennebec, they went to the Steam and Boom Company in Hallowell. The Steam and Boom Company collected all the logs and…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… and the last of the Cooask-aukes (dwellers-of-the-pines) and respected friend of the early settlers, showed them where river fording was feasible…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"That is enough to run the mill for three to four years. On April 27, 1826, he bought 352 acres of land, and he bought 100 acres the next day."

Dyer Library/Saco Museum

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"Stevens was made an honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1922 and in 1927 they elected him president, the highest office in…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"After Peggy died, Pine Tree Cottage eventually came to the Farmington Historical Society. The members of the Historical Society took great care to…"

Acadian Archives

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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.”…"