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Historical Items

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Item 19101

Woods camp, Aroostook County, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: circa 1890 Media: Photographic print

Item 11272

Charles Parson, Elmer Hale, Maine woods, 1900

Contributed by: Baxter State Park Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print

Item 8180

Ed Kennedy's Woods Crew 1911

Contributed by: Patten Lumbermen's Museum Date: 1911 Media: Photographic print

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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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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Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

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 - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3

"… economic development and a commitment to preservation of the “Maine Woods experience” for future generations. Return to Online Exhibits"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"Then Isaiah ran into the woods, and he slept in between two logs for the night. Eventually he safely made it back to his group's tents."

My Maine Stories

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John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.

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The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona

Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.

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Tracers
by anonymous

tracers, bonding, and fixations