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This is in the school yard of the Notre Dame de la Sagesse boarding school on Arbor Day in 1923. At that time, Sr. Marie Eugènie was principal. This Daughter of Wisdom, originally from Blois, France, served as principal from 1906 to 1935.

"Thoreau" Island, also known as Louse Island, is on the East Branch of the Penobscot River.

It is named for Henry David Thoreau, who wrote about his visits to the area in the 1840s.

"The Bricks," looking north, Colby College.

Grindstone Falls is on the East Branch of the Penobscot River, about eight miles north of Medway.

This giant elm tree on Storer Street, shown in the middle of the photo, was named the "Lafayette Elm" to commemorate the famous visit of General Lafayette to Kennebunk in 1825. It died from Dutch Elm Blight in the mid 1900s.

View of the road heading toward the Longfellow farm in East Gorham. The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow spent much of his childhood here at the home of his grandparents, the Hon. Stephen and Patience Young Longfellow.

The house was built in 1761 and the farm had hundreds of elm trees that had been set out in the late 1700s.

This tree, approximately 100 years old in 1965, was then ravaged by Dutch Elm Disease.

Once a stately elm situated in front of Young's Metal Shop on Portland Street, this tree acquired its name from the curious loop in one of its branches. It had been a landmark for a century. Children and adults often had their pictures taken while sitting upon it.

In 1965, Harry Eastman had the "doughnut" stump cut down, treated, and placed on his property further down Portland Street.

Gerald McNear leans against a large red maple that he asked state forestry officials to examine. They said it could be some 300 years old. It is growing near the Androscoggin River in Leeds in what used to be the riverbed.

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Elm Street in Topsham, looking west, is shown after a snow storm, April 2, 1887.

Photograph of State Street, Portland, ca. 1880. Note wooden structures on elm trees.

A tree-lined view of Federal Street, Brunswick. Federal Street is currently designated a Historic District. Photo taken from an album entitled "Brunswick and Vicinity."

The Birch Chapel at Pine Point Camp (boys) on Great Pond, Belgrade Lakes, ca. 1910.

This is part of a collection of photographs that include scenes of Mt. Desert Island, Porcupine Island, Eggemoggin Reach to Rockland in Penobscot Bay and the Belgrade Lakes region of Maine.

Old post card of Pine Street in Lewiston. Woman in late 1890s dress in foreground.

Orphan boys (5th and 6th graders) of Good Will having a party in the Good Will Pines in 1917.

The Good Will Pines are located in Clinton on the east side of the Kennebec River on the campus of Good Will-Hinckley. Good Will-Hinckley Homes for Boys and Girls was founded in 1889 in Fairfield by George Walter Hinckley.

The Green Acre Inn hosted classes for its guests, often featuring religious and spiritual leaders from around the world lecturing "under the pines" in Eliot in the late 1800s early 1900s.

W.E.B. DuBois, the founder of the N.A.A.C.P. was one such individual, as well as Swami Vivekananda, Edward Everett Hale, Anagarika H. Dharmapala, Ralph Waldo Trine, Helen Campbell, Booker T. Washington and historian John Fiske, as well as many other notables.

Jeannine Morissette of Lyman is shown collecting sap from a maple tree during the early spring of 1954.

Warm days and cold nights helped the sap flow. John and Mary Louise McCloy emptied sap into a large bucket as they tended to their syruping chores at sunset in March 1982.

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Flames are seen in the trees during the 1977 fire at Baxter State Park.

This C-54 spray plane is spraying a section of Maine's forest. In 1979 the spruce budworm attacked the spruces and made them unsuitable for use by the timber industry. The pesticide used to control the budworm was Sevin-4.

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Pictured from left to right at Sabbathday Lake are Frank Carpenter, hired man, and Brothers Hiram Bailey, John Dorrington (b. 1878) and John Pine (b. 1875).

The saw in the photograph was purchased in the 1890s. Elder Delmer Wilson built the gasoline engine that powered it.

E. B. Draper took this photograph of two woodsmen chopping a tree.

Long logs are piled in the lake flowage behind a dam, waiting for the logs to be sluiced.