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Historical Items Showing 3 of 1023 View All
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 99452
Bangor Lumber Company lumbermen, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library
Date: circa 1910
Location: Bangor
Media: Postcard
Item 99451
Bangor lumber mill workers, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library
Date: circa 1905
Location: Bangor
Media: Custom Postcard
Tax Records Showing 3 of 36 View All
Item 86133
Lumber Storage and Mill, Brown Wharf Mill Building, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: F B Irvin Lumber Company
Use: Lumber Storage and Mill
Item 70672
Item 86982
Exhibits Showing 3 of 34 View All
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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.
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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.
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Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World
… byBangor Public Library The Decline of Lumber The lumbering industry of Bangor started to take a decline in the late 1800s.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Starbirds
Starbirds Stacked long lumber, Starbird Lumber Co., Strong, ca. 1957 Item 69116 infoStrong Historical Society Long lumber of all dimensions…
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Online Items
Online Items Stacked long lumber, Starbird Lumber Co., Strong, ca. 1957 Item 69116 infoStrong Historical Society Long lumber of all…
My Maine Stories Showing 3 of 14 View All
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Canadian immigrant founds worlds largest paper company in 1898
by Hugh J. Chisholm
Hugh J. Chisholm founded International Paper, which was the world's largest paper company in 1898.
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I feel like there will always be a need for Paper
by Patricia Richards
The Paper Industry is very important to people in the Jay, Livermore Falls, and Rumford areas.
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It was like a family in the mill
by Arnold R. Couture
I saw a lot of changes at the International Paper Otis Mill during my 26 years as an electrician