Keywords: Town forest
Item 104415
Logging with oxen on Town Forest land, Troy, ca. 1940
Courtesy of Neil Piper, an individual partner Date: circa 1940 Location: Troy Media: Photographic print
Item 104410
Planning for Troy town forest, ca. 1940
Courtesy of Neil Piper, an individual partner Date: 1940 Location: Troy Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The Establishment of the Troy Town Forest
Seavey Piper, a selectman, farmer, landowner, and leader of the Town of Troy in the 1920s through the early 1950s helped establish a town forest on abandoned farm land in Troy. The exhibit details his work over ten years.
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
Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History
"Even today this is true for the nine towns of the Androscoggin River Valley. While the valley’s shoeshops, tanneries, and novelty mills are gone, the…"
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s
"Once nearby forests were depleted, local shipyard owners purchased rights to great tracts of land for hardwood supplies in Georgia, South Carolina…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
Story
Canadian immigrant founds worlds largest paper company in 1898
by Hugh J. Chisholm
Hugh J. Chisholm founded International Paper, which was the world's largest paper company in 1898.
