Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"Also, loggers used an axe called the double bit axe that was very dangerous because of its two axe blades on both sides."

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"There was also the adze, a tool like an axe used for shaping and dressing wood. It was different from an axe because it had a long and slender…"

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"The Axe was a tool typically used for chopping wood with usually a steel blade attached at a right angle to a wooden handle."

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"… or eighth log with two quick strokes of a tiny axe, and then running lines the whole length of the raft with a clove hitch over each pin."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"Using a broad axe and crude tools, Wheeler soon built a cabin for his family on a knoll which is now known as Dudley Street."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"Mouth harps, iron arrowheads, knives, axe heads , clay pipes, glass beads, musket balls and gunflints have been found around Presque Isle, of both…"

Stetson Historical Society

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Abbe Museum

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3

"… tools of the first degree, for example, are the axe, the plough, the harrow, and the spade. Agriculture is seen as the noblest of occupations, as…"

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

"… plant, novelty wood turning mill, and an axe factory. A butter factory, Carrabassett Creamery, was organized as a stock company in Nov.1899."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… a new neighbor only by hearing the sound of an axe on a distant hill. It was Osgood Walker, and the hill became named for this family."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… to their homes in Topsham to get supplies, axes, saws and other tools to begin the hard job of clearing the land."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… of how proficient a young father was with an axe, adze or saw, he did not receive 75 cents a day (apprentices received fifty cents) per day until…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"… tall and weighs 3,700 pounds, not including his axe and peavey. Paul Bunyan is made out of fiberglass and reinforced steel making it able to…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"Battle-Axe Factory, Lubec, 1900 Lubec Historical Society From the first perspective: The Lawrences were another family with long involvements in the…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… made from steel and iron including cider mills, axes, scythes, and other tools. Wood products including window sashes, caskets, shovel handles…"

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

"Bennett Blacksmith Samuel F. Cutts Axe Maker D.Butler Millwright & Jointer A.A. Knowles Trader & Lumberman Hiram Pease Livestock & Country Producer…"

Acadian Archives

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