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Description
Fire prevention advocates and a paper company united in 1957 on MacMahan Island to create defensible space between combustible natural vegetation and human structures.
Edwin Cromwell, a sawmill owner on Westport Island contracted with the Pejepscot Paper company to conduct managed clear cutting and to create a firebreak between summer cottages and the natural forest.
The operation took over a year. Loggers stayed on the island a week at a time in a cottage provided by a landowner, coming home to Westport on the weekends. Fred Blake, one of the Cromwell's logging crew did most of the cooking.
About This Item
- Title: Forest fire lane, MacMahan Island, 1957
- Creator: Maine Forest Service
- Creation Date: 1957-05-16
- Subject Date: 1957-05-16
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Locations:
- MacMahan Island, Sagadahoc County, ME
- Westport Island, Lincoln County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 20.5 cm x 25.2 cm
- Local Code: CromEdw.Photo.11.1957
- Collection: Edwin Cromwell Family Collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Maine Forestry District
- Lumber industry--Maine--Westport Island
- Machinery
- Loggers
- Pejepscot Paper Company
- Westport Island (Me.)
- Sawmills--Maine--Westport Island
- Lumber industry--Maine--MacMahan Island
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Westport Island History Committee6 Fowles Point Road, Westport Island, ME 04578
(207) 882-8477
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