Keywords: Logging Penobscot River
Item 99450
Penobscot River lumber raft at Bangor, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1905 Location: Bangor Media: Postcard
Item 99444
Lumber boom on the Penobscot River at Bangor, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1905 Location: Bangor Media: Postcard
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
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 Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World
"First the trees had to be cut, then taken to the river. From there, the river drivers guided the logs to Bangor and boom operators sorted the logs."
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976
"… get any worse, a buildup of logs jammed the Penobscot River, and the flood had just begun. Very high tides and strong winds made for perfect flood…"
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
Story
A New Beginning for Wabanaki Land Relationships
by John Banks
Wabanaki leadership in land stewardship
