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Historical Items

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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 9792

B. C. Jordan Lumber Co., Alfred, 1919

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: 1919 Media: Photographic print

Item 16123

Mattawamkeag Lumber Company, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Mattawamkeag Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111338

House for Daniel F. Emery Jr., 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1900 Client: Daniel F. Emery, Jr. Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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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.

Exhibit

Making Paper, Making Maine

Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.

Exhibit

The Establishment of the Troy Town Forest

Seavey Piper, a selectman, farmer, landowner, and leader of the Town of Troy in the 1920s through the early 1950s helped establish a town forest on abandoned farm land in Troy. The exhibit details his work over ten years.

Site Pages

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825

"Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825 Site of Vose's Wharf, Thomaston, Maine 2009Thomaston Historical Society Philip Hanson arrived from…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"The train fell off the tracks in my yard once when I was little, and it rolled over. My grandfather told me about it."

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Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"I saved up $5 from babysitting and raking the yard to afford new school clothes this year. I didn’t have a job last summer, so I didn’t get any new…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life