Maine Memory Network

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"The logs sometimes got caught up on rocks, stopping the ones behind or even forcing them under. The loggers used poles, booms and even dynamite to…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… farmer and needed to return to the hard labor of logging. The next winter he went with a crew of men to work at a location twelve miles into the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"The Committee of the State of Eastern Lands became the vehicle for veterans to obtain new lands in the Province of Maine (then owned by…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… ran the hotel and furnished the rum and raffled off a white horse at $1/ticket. It was said that a hot time in the old town was had that night."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"… when it was quite common for planes to take off and land on the beaches. The seven-mile stretch of beach from the easterly tip of Pine Point…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Early 1600s ships' logs had accounts of fishing and fur trading along the coast. Fish, particularly cod, was abundant and a very profitable commodity…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"The next year, the new steam log hauler made its first trip to the woods. At the peak of Stockholm’s industrial development it was estimated that 330…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73 Log Cabin, New Sweden, 1938New Sweden Historical Society In 1870, the original 160-acre lots were…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… to Sprague’s Cove and then shipped to far off lands. Area children were served by one school in the Sprague District."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"… created by people wading across the water with logs to build a bridge to get to Upsala. Upsala is what Stockholm was known as when it first was…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"He cleared land and built a log house near what is now called Bounty Cove, mid-point on the island near the Narrows."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… lines using basswood bark, The “men measured off six parcels of land, each 100 rods wide and extending one mile from the river."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"After the tour, the two stopped to sit on a log and talk. Gould felt that the mill was in poor shape and needed quite a few repairs and improvements."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… Isle in 1836, native people had been driven off of much of their traditional land by disease, violence, and European (American and Canadian)…"

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."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"A log kept by the light keeper at West Quoddy Head recorded as many as 17 outbound and 15 inbound craft passing the Head in September 1874."

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