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Keywords: Wood Hauling

Historical Items

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Item 23232

Log hauling, Island Falls, 1896

Contributed by: Island Falls Historical Society Date: 1896-01-24 Location: Island Falls Media: Photographic print

Item 13883

Hauling logs on a bobsled, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1895 Media: Photographic print

Item 5868

Hauling wood in Millinocket, 1980

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1980-03-05 Location: Millinocket Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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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.

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Umbazooksus & Beyond

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.

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Shepard Cary: Lumberman, Legislator, Leader and Legend

Shepard Cary (1805-1866) was one of the leading -- and wealthiest -- residents of early Aroostook County. He was a lumberman, merchant, mill operator, and legislator.

Site Pages

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"Coal was also hauled into Franklin County by train. The depot in Strong was located on the street that we call Norton Hill today."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Rustic furniture, Bangor, 1865

"… crooks" in the woods, cut them and found someone hauling a load of wood to carry the cedar out of the woods for him."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 74-138

"Sanger Ann Fales Sanger Ruth Mayo Hauling wood Clearing land for orchard, wheat Hampden House Bar Bowling alleys Jes Crosman Sands Circus & Caravan…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall

Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.

Story

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.