Keywords: wood products
Item 67309
Decorative imitation apple, Strong Wood Turning Corp., Strong, ca. 1955
Contributed by: Mr. & Mrs. Robert Pike through Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1955 Location: Strong Media: Lacquered wood
Item 67308
Match/Toothpick canister, Strong Wood Turning Corp., Strong, cr. 1955
Contributed by: Mr. & Mrs. Robert Pike through Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1955 Location: Strong Media: Lacquered wood
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.
Exhibit
Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong
For a time birch pulp wood was shipped from Maine to him in Boston, but he soon realized that he needed to relocate his operations to a site where…
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?
A settler could either collect and sell the plain wood ash, or they could blanch it in a large vat, and boil it down to produce pot-ash (potash).
Story
My 40 years in Forestry and the Paper Industry in Maine
by Donna Cassese
I was the first female forester hired by Scott Paper and continue to find new uses for wood.
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
