Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"Captured logs and buildings on rafts belong to the Hallowell Steam and Boom Company. The Hallowell Cotton Mill can be seen in the background."

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 2 of 3

"One night it rained all night and the wind blew very hard. The next morning, the river was rising quickly. People that lived in houses on River…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"Framed houses had replaced log cabins, the first framed house being built on High Street above Mill River."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… later, when carpenter William Roberts built a log cabin close to the beach. John Clement, a cooper, brought his family five years later."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"Aghast at the prospect of a logging operation along the main road into Asticou and Northeast Harbor, Charles travelled to New York City in the night…"

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

"Savage and/or his neighbors fashioning those logs sometime in late 1854 or early 1855 in time to build around them a new home to move into by…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"The lumber company would cut trees into smooth slabs and send them to stores. The company built a boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"He was also involved in civic projects, including the construction of a meeting house and the formation of local militia companies."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"The following year, the log jam and flood mentioned above occurred, sending two and a half million feet of logs through the windows and inundating…"

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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"Then the calm of peace and the growth of log huts, the ring of the ax in the great forest, and the hum of life in the home of the hardy pioneer."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… settled in 1764 by Shubael Williams who built a log house next to Bounty Cove near the center of the island."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"Once he left his large log store and farmhouse, it was torn down by the person who purchased it. Aaron died in New York years later."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"to stop logging on land near Lower Hadlock Pond and adjacent to Route 198 that culminated in the conservation in perpetuity along a two mile corridor…"

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

"… Stream so they could use the river to transport logs. It opened in the 1930s and was shut down around 1990 due to foreign imports that were cheaper…"

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"The building was constructed of logs and featured an open fireplace that was said to be used by the children to warm their corn cakes and potatoes…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… one resource says that John was born in a log-cabin in Farmington. John, in his early years, tended toward wild and reckless."

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

"… created by people wading across the water with logs to build a bridge to get to Upsala. Upsala is what Stockholm was known as when it first was…"

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

"… Youth for Christ International, and a Yule Log pit. It is estimated that 500,000 people saw the Pageant in person with many millions watching the…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… events were oxen pulling, barbeque, canoe races, log chopping contest, magic show, chalk talk, and street dance."

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

"He built a log cabin and became the first resident, living one mile from his brother Samuel who settled in Embden."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"After the tour, the two stopped to sit on a log and talk. Gould felt that the mill was in poor shape and needed quite a few repairs and improvements."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… curling smoke and dying flame they erected their log-cabins and hovels, and thither conducted in triumph their wives and children." (A History of…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"He cleared land and built a log house near what is now called Bounty Cove, mid-point on the island near the Narrows."