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Ambajejus Boom House

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Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec

"… Commerce on the Kennebec includes treacherous logging on the Kennebec, shipbuilding in Hallowell, very famous Hallowell sea captains, the history…"

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

"Unmarked logs were free for the taking. Bunk houses with adjoining cook and mess shacks were erected on rafts and anchored on the Chelsea side of the…"

Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"… and colorful “river drivers” who jumped from log to log to break up jams and keep the mass moving downstream."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 2 of 17

"… During the Civil War, Maine laborers worked in logging, milling, papermaking, built ships, fished, and processed fish; mined and cut granite and…"

East Grand School

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

"Examples of some of the first log structures can still be found, though the logs may be hidden by more modern materials."

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"Edging took the trim off the logs. Finally, the logs were dried, planed, and shipped to the market. Stickney & Page Dam, Cascade, Hallowell…"

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"Groups Log Cabin and Hard Cider Club, Portland, ca. 1850Maine Historical Society The Maine Historical Society Collection contains several…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Permanent Settlement

"Somes built a log cabin along the shore in what is now known as Somesville. Richardson built his home further down the shore near what is now called…"

Historic Hallowell - Earning Our Keep

"… Our Keep Hallowell Boom and Steam Co., Log Drivers, Hallowell, ca. 1890Hubbard Free Library How do you earn your daily bread? How do you…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad and Maine Public Service Building

"… for the purpose of housing these two companies. Sources William, Arthur M. From Logs to Electricity. Presque Isle: Maine Public Service, 1989."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 8 of 17

"… Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Log Drive, Saco River, ca. 1894McArthur Public Library As more businesses and industries were using…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… and during one flood, the boom chain that held logs broke, and the logs washed over the dam during high water, smashing nearly every window in the…"

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"These logs at most burned slowly. There were also no matches at the time. But even so, the Cascade hand tub was a valuable asset to the Hallowell…"

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

"The next year, the new steam log hauler made its first trip to the woods. At the peak of Stockholm’s industrial development it was estimated that 330…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"… populate the area, and they were housed in thirty log cabins constructed between the fort and Mill River, to the east."

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

"Finally, the lumberman sawed the logs into lumber for shipment. Companies from around the world came to Bangor for the huge amount of revenue waiting…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"The earliest logs were cut from around the falls. By the end of the 18th century the logs were being sent down from Fryeburg and points north."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 13 of 13

"SOURCES Richard W. Judd” AROOSTOOK A Century of Logging in Northen Maine” UNIVERSIY OF MAINE PRESS, 1989 Charles Morrow Wilson “Aroostook: Our Last…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Fales Edgarton House

"The first homes built in 1719 were crude log cabins and did not withstand the early hostile attacks."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 2 of 2

"… & settlement at Winter Harbor Piles of logs along the Saco River, ca. 1910McArthur Public Library The earliest settlers lived almost…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"Mills built along the railroad made Strong the logging community it is today. Sometimes the trains used two engines to haul a big load of wood."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"The last drive was in 1976, and huge logging trucks have replaced the river in the transporting of logs to the mills."