Maine Memory Network

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."

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."

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

"… 1901 a dam was created to be able to send large logs down the river to send them right to the lumber company."

Kennebunkport Historical Society

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Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"Along with ice, logs flowed down the river and created a dam, causing the water to back up. When the water overflowed onto the banks, the Great…"

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…"

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…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"A log kept by the light keeper at West Quoddy Head recorded as many as 17 outbound and 15 inbound craft passing the Head in September 1874."

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."

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."