Keywords: Spruce trees
Item 19004
Spruce gum collector, Presque Isle, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Presque Isle Media: Metal
Item 102439
Spruce woods, Stanley Hill, Kingfield, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Kingfield Media: Lantern slide, hand colored
Exhibit
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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Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
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Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959
"This was the first tree: from a private citizen and not from a National Forest; and ever used from East of the Mississippi."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls
"The booms were tree-length spruce logs, chained together with heavy chains, called “boom chains,” and these booms were chained to the piers."
