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Item 23080
Title: Logs awaiting the log drive, Ambajejus, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Ambajejus Boom House Museum
Date: circa 1950
Location: T1 R9 WELS
Media: Photograph
Item 26681
Title: Salmon Falls Dam, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Dyer Library Archives / Saco Museum
Date: circa 1900
Location: Saco
Media: black and white photograph
Item 35509
Title: Log drive, Sheridan, ca. 1903
Contributed by: Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library
Date: circa 1903
Location: Ashland
Media: Glass negative
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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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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.