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Keywords: Maine woods

Historical Items

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Item 17119

Leonard Woods letter to John Fogg, 1846

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1846 Location: Brunswick Media: Ink on paper

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Item 13304

Pearce Woods, Houlton, 1890

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1890 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 23963

Camping in the woods of Maine, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1920 Media: Postcard

Tax Records

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Item 84589

Sterling property, Woods Road, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Sarah S. Sterling Use: Woodshed

Item 100637

Sterling property, Woods Road, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Sarah S. Sterling Use: Storage

Item 100640

Sterling property, Woods Road, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Sarah S. Sterling Use: Woodshed

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109353

House on Highland St. for Mr. Arthur Wood, Portland, 1910-1911

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1910–1911 Location: Portland Client: Arthur Wood Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 110155

Country House for Stanley Wood Esq. Wolf Neck, Freeport, 1917-1922

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917–1922 Location: Freeport Client: Stanley Wood Architect: John Calvin Stevens John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 111314

Mount Pleasant House, NH, 1894

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1894 Location: Carroll Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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A Riot of Words: Ballads, Posters, Proclamations and Broadsides

Imagine a day 150 years ago. Looking down a side street, you see the buildings are covered with posters and signs.

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Amazing! Maine Stories

These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.

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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.

Site Pages

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Friends of Wood Island Light

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong

"For a time birch pulp wood was shipped from Maine to him in Boston, but he soon realized that he needed to relocate his operations to a site where…"

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Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"A settler could either collect and sell the plain wood ash, or they could blanch it in a large vat, and boil it down to produce pot-ash (potash)."

My Maine Stories

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Mark Plummer, golfer from Maine
by Mark Plummer

Amateur golfer from Maine, Mark Plummer discussed his golf career and life lessons

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My 40 years in Forestry and the Paper Industry in Maine
by Donna Cassese

I was the first female forester hired by Scott Paper and continue to find new uses for wood.

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Moving from Washington to Maine with the Navy
by Tom Jarvis

Maine's forests, mill history, and volunteer work keep me here