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Keywords: Logging
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Item 13349
Title: Hatfield's Logging Camp
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Date: 1889-12-01
Media: monochrome photograph
Item 13340
Title: Aroostook County Logging Camp
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Date: circa 1895
Media: monochrome photograph
Item 20185
Title: Emerson Logging Company, Stacyville, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Island Falls Historical Society
Date: circa 1895
Location: Stacyville
Media: Photograph
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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
Bangor became the largest lumber port in the world in the early 19th century, aided by several dams that diverted water and made lumber drives down the Penobscot River possible.
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Walter Wyman's vision to capture the power of Maine's rivers to produce electricity led to the formation of Central Maine Power Co. and to a struggle within the state over what should happen to the power produced by the state's natural resources.
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The history of a town bordered by the Kennebec and Sandy Rivers as depicted by students from Skowhegan Area Middle School working in close proximity with members of the Skowhegan Historical Society. Exhibits include the Skowhegan Island, farming, log drives, Benedict Arnold’s March, early settlement, Bloomfield Academy, Lakewood Theater, and the Abenakis.