Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"… he was involved in several local projects – logging, lime burning, canals, ship building and brick making all over what was then Lincoln County."

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."

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 1 of 3

"… Included in the next three pages: Fires Floods Log Drives Fires Text By: Jamie Libby and Chase Bouton Eighth Grade Students at Piscataquis…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"In 1929 Curtis Wright Corporation built a nearby log cabin intended as a barracks for a summer flight school."

Kennebunkport Historical Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"A full size log cabin was erected as the center of the exhibit in 1895 and affectionately nicknamed “Camp Maine Central.” Lumber for the cabin was…"

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…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… made his living coasting as a schooner captain, logging Savage family land, loading his schooners with lumber and trading in ports such as Boston…"

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…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… the letter, a corduroy road--a road of parallel logs packed with sand and laid over a swampy area--was being constructed near White Oaks."

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"They built their log houses during the summer, went back to Beverly and Andover Massachusetts before winter and came the following year with their…"

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…"

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

"Early 1600s ships' logs had accounts of fishing and fur trading along the coast. Fish, particularly cod, was abundant and a very profitable commodity…"

Maine State Museum

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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."

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…"

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…"

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."

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."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"They built log houses with simple furniture, surviving on the island’s resources through long winters with only the occasional sailboat connecting…"

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."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"With mechanization of logging and potato farming, the tribe’s economic role disappeared. The people were left to fend for themselves without any…"