Maine Memory Network

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"Potatoes were down from 45¢ to 15¢ a barrel. Timber was becoming scarce and many mills had to close down."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"Much of the framing consisted of hand-hewn 6"x6" timbers with wooden pegs. One can imagine A.C. Savage and/or his neighbors fashioning those logs…"

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

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

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… point is definitely the U.S.” By July, 1808 the timber tower and a keeper’s house were complete though the exact date of first illumination is…"

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

"… was not simply dropped as a tree being cut for timber would have been. The tree’s branches had to be handled carefully as this tree represented…"

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

"… business made Bangor into a global provider for timber. Bangor, a small town on a tidal river, was once famous as the Lumber Capital of the World."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"It was made out of steel tracks, timber ties, railroad spikes, and railroad ties. The railroad was used for both passenger and freight trains."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"Gould purchased 6,500 acres of timbered land on Hobart Hill, about four miles southwest of Presque Isle."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… 6,000 acres, mostly wooded with little good timber, barren ledges and swamps. Only one third of the land was good for farming, but the fishing was…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… Isle to Washburn to open up a new supply of timber for the mill and at a cheaper price. He approached the citizens of Washburn with the idea."

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"… can throw a bucket is crowding around the burning timber. Water and more help is coming, but I do not think it will be enough."

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

"… for many and gave a ready market for birch timber. Osie's Texaco Service Station calendar for North New Portland, 1948New Portland Historical…"

Acadian Archives

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… gauge railroads allowed for the quick movement of timber south and tourists north. For the first time in western Maine’s history, rural communities…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… prosperity to area farmers, who harvested the timber, and to blacksmiths, carpenters, ship-chandlers and other suppliers of materials needed to…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"The opening of the vast timber reserves of the northwestern part of the United States and the completion of the transcontinental railroads helped to…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"However as population grew and shoreline timber was depleted, it became necessary to settle the inland acreage known as "back lots." The owners of…"