Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… Area Historical Society Jonathan Keyes Log Cabin, Rumford Corner, ca. 1900Greater Rumford Area Historical Society The Town of Rumford owes…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"They built a small cabin on an island that had been cleared by the Abenakis. Here they planted corn and potatoes."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… corn and wheat and helping with the building of cabins. Capt Bennett stayed with his family in the township until after the harvest; then returned…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… of a garden, and used others to build a two-story cabin with two rooms on the first floor to be used as a dwelling and a storage room upstairs."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… one resource says that John was born in a log-cabin in Farmington. John, in his early years, tended toward wild and reckless."

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

"He built a log cabin and became the first resident, living one mile from his brother Samuel who settled in Embden."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… smoke and dying flame they erected their log-cabins and hovels, and thither conducted in triumph their wives and children." (A History of…"