Keywords: Chopping
Item 104781
Men competing in a log chopping competition, Lake Maranacook, 1935
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1935-06-26 Location: Winthrop ; Readfield Media: glass negative
Item 80034
Boom Logs, Greenlaw Chopping Township, ca. 1955
Contributed by: Joyce Carle through Princeton Public Library Date: circa 1955 Location: Greenlaw Chopping Twp Media: Slide
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Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.
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Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store
"… Marion Stinson remembers, "You could buy a pork chop for ten cents." Smith owned a team of horses, most likely to transport his products."
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Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources
"The Axe was a tool typically used for chopping wood with usually a steel blade attached at a right angle to a wooden handle."
