Keywords: lumber
Item 69116
Stacked long lumber, Starbird Lumber Co., Strong, ca. 1957
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1957 Location: Strong Media: Photographic print
Item 99452
Bangor Lumber Company lumbermen, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Bangor Media: Postcard
Item 86133
Lumber Storage and Mill, Brown Wharf Mill Building, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: F B Irvin Lumber Company Use: Lumber Storage and Mill
Item 86369
Lumber Storage, Hobson Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Harrison J Libby Heirs Use: Lumber Storage
Item 150080
Eagle Lake Lumber Mills Wood Plant, Eagle Lake, 1950
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1950
Location: Eagle Lake
Client: Eagle Lake Lumber Mills Inc.
Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
This record contains 2 images.
Item 151776
Great Northern Paper Company sleeping camp, 1913
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913 Client: Great Northern Paper Company Architect: Great Northern Paper Company
Exhibit
Cooks and Cookees: Lumber Camp Legends
Stories and tall tales abound concerning cooks and cookees -- important persons in any lumber camp, large or small.
Exhibit
Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town
Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World
"1910Bangor Public Library The Decline of Lumber The lumbering industry of Bangor started to take a decline in the late 1800s."
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2
"In order to take lumber from both mills down the river, they had to be assembled into rafts. Ten rafts were hooked together with one man on each end…"
Story
Timberland Legacy, My Family's History in Maine
by Lisa Huber
A long connection to the forestry industry and conservation movement in Maine
Story
My career as a wildlife biologist
by Ron Joseph
Rural Maine provided the foundation of a rewarding career as a wildlife biologist.