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Item 12952

Hardwood potato barrel, Littleton, ca. 1970

Hardwood potato barrel, Littleton, ca. 1970

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1970 Location: Littleton Media: Wood

Item 13195

Potato barrels at harvest, Caribou, ca. 1930

Potato barrels at harvest, Caribou, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print

Item 22306

Potato harvest, Woodland, ca. 1922

Potato harvest, Woodland, ca. 1922

Contributed by: Nylander Museum Date: circa 1922 Location: Woodland Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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US Peg and Shank Mill, Princeton, 1930

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.

Exhibit

Steamboats "Rebecca" and "Fairy of the Lake," Moosehead Lake, ca. 1890

Moosehead Steamboats

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

Pulp pile, St. Croix Paper Co., Woodland, ca. 1910

Making Paper, Making Maine

Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.

Site Pages

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Glooskap and Keanke spearing the whale, 1884

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… Somes Sound offered running water and plenty of hardwood. He pitched his camp there. Then he returned to Gloucester for his family and set to work."