Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"Maine's white pine, an ideal wood with many uses was used for masts for ships, lobster traps, and lumber for houses."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"… sunken eyes, blackened countenances from pitch pine smoke, rags, and disease, the men look sickening."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"… 1825-26, Ira and his crew put 5,000,000 feet of pine logs in the water. That is enough to run the mill for three to four years."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… Bayley and Don Googins Local Fishermen at Pine Point, Scarborough, 1932Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Scarborough’s coastline, with…"

Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"… who spent nine days trying to run the Suburban Pines Motel in Windham without power while housing eight relatives, then when a guest was using a…"

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"… shipped down the Kennebec River were mainly pines. When they got shipped down the Kennebec, they went to the Steam and Boom Company in Hallowell…"

Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… her entire existence, but she did linger in the Pine Tree State. Mary Snow was never married, and she never had children."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"DeFord, Deborah. Maine, the Pine Tree State. World Almanac Library, 2003. Frazier, Thomas B. "Stephen King." Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"Snow’s Pine Point factory canned its last batch of chopped clams in 1990 after 68 years in business."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"By the 1860’s, much of the big pine in the region had been cut, and many of the American-born loggers moved west, where the trees were bigger and the…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"Their houses were rough hewn from pine with no adequate provision for proper sanitation or ventilation."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

"Education was important to the townspeople. The Pines , an elementary school, Central High School, and others were located in the area of East New…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Later, after the American Revolution, the cutting, sawing and transporting of enormous amounts of both pine and spruce boards began."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… “…maple, birch, beach, (sic) ash, elm, basswood, pine, hemlock, fir, spruce, cedar with some oak on the highlands and hackmetack on the lowlands.”…"