Keywords: Bangor Log Boom
Item 99444
Lumber boom on the Penobscot River at Bangor, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1905 Location: Bangor Media: Postcard
Item 33560
Log Jam at the Penobscot Boom, Bangor, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1885 Location: Bangor Media: Stereograph
Exhibit
After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World
"Finally, the lumberman sawed the logs into lumber for shipment. Companies from around the world came to Bangor for the huge amount of revenue waiting…"
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Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive
"Booms were large logs attached together by a chain. The booms circled the logs, not letting them escape."
