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Historical Items Showing 3 of 336 View All
Item 67651
Title: Forest Paper Co., Yarmouth, 1889
Contributed by: Yarmouth Historical Society
Date: 1889
Location: Yarmouth
Media: Photograph
Item 74256
Title: Georgina Shaylor, Forest Lake, 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1925
Location: Gray
Media: Photograph
Item 75599
Title: Congress Street at Forest Avenue, Portland, ca. 1933
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1933
Location: Portland
Media: Postcard
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Item 54471
Address: 248-252 Forest Avenue, Portland
Owner in 1924: Forest City Filling Station
Item 54472
Address: 248-252 Forest Avenue, Portland
Owner in 1924: Forest City Filling Station
Use: Washing Stand
Item 54475
Address: 248-252 Forest Avenue, Portland
Owner in 1924: Forest City Filling Station
Use: Storage - Oil
Exhibits Showing 3 of 5 View All
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Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.
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Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers
Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.
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Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village
The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.