Maine Memory Network

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"The logs sometimes got caught up on rocks, stopping the ones behind or even forcing them under. The loggers used poles, booms and even dynamite to…"

Lincoln, Maine - Logging truck, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"Logging truck, Lincoln, ca. 1930 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description These trucks would come across the frozen lake from…"

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…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"I have heard of some Hemlock logs that are offered for sale also. I think I can buy hardwood logs if wish to so that as to timber we can be supplied."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… invaluable to the wood industry sporting many a “log drive” in its heyday. Soon Mr. Graves built a tannery, called by the villagers the “bark…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"The next winter he went with a crew of men to work at a location twelve miles into the woods from the nearest dwelling."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… Area Historical Society Jonathan Keyes Log Cabin, Rumford Corner, ca. 1900Greater Rumford Area Historical Society The Town of Rumford owes…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"… the Androscoggin River flowing high with melting winter snows from fields, from dark forests, water crashing to granite rock, spray leaping high in…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 2 of 3

"… laying the main 24” pipe, and the onset of the winter of 1913-1914, work was stopped until the spring of 1914."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… to play anywhere, sliding down the streets in winter, exploring the surrounding woods, and playing in the brook in summer."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… Ski Club, founded in the early 1920s, offered winter Nordic and Cross Country skiing, and hosted an annual winter carnival, first at its ski jump…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"… he helped get in the ice for summer, wood for winter, and hay for the animals. He lived on a farm on Roxbury Road in Mexico."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"… the river was low in summer and on the ice in winter. In 1901 the Red Bridge was built near this location."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"South Rumford had the Thurston’s or “winter" School on the shore of the Androscoggin River near the Aaron Graham/Bartlett/Welch farm, which the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"This fire occurred on a severely cold winter night, and firemen were hampered by ice forming on their clothing, causing seven of them to be injured…"

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."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… famous for inventing a vehicle that changed the logging business, the Lombard Steam Log Hauler. He developed this idea while working as a…"

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…"

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…"

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."

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… captain would write it all down in his captains log which contains the item, how much it costs, and how many there is of the item."

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…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"The thundering logs swept everything before them until they reached the dam just below the bridge. At this point on the river were located the mills…"

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

"He spent the winter in his log cabin and as spring approached he tapped his maple trees and made maple sugar and syrup for his family."