Maine Memory Network

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

"From there, the river drivers guided the logs to Bangor and boom operators sorted the logs. Finally, the lumberman sawed the logs into lumber for…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"Cohen School Images from Bangor Public Library, Bangor Daily News and Bangor Historical Society The Penobscot River has brought wealth and prosperity…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… the letter, a corduroy road--a road of parallel logs packed with sand and laid over a swampy area--was being constructed near White Oaks."

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…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"In a recent Bangor Daily News farewell to the Auditorium article (February 2013), the Rumford High basketball team of 1977 was named as one of the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 2 of 2

"… in the State Class A Championship game in Bangor. The margin of victory was 20 points, the most for a State game at the time."

Norcross Heritage Trust

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Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec Citations

"N.p.: n.p., n.d. Harris, Larry. Logging Tools. n.d. 11 Apr. 2011 <http://www.theaxehole.com/the_axe_hole_april_2011_006.htm>. Jackson, Gordan."

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"… Pictures Early ferries were flat and made of logs; the logs were placed side by side like a flat boat."

Music in Maine - Country Music

"… in 1962 and 1963 when he worked trucking logs and lumber. Allagash Records sold over 9,000 copies of Tombstone Every Mile before Tower Records, a…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Quenching the Thirst

"… Isaac Simpson made hundreds of photographs of logging crews and rural Mainers. Drinking was enjoyed by cutting crews and sportspeople in the big…"

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…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… events were oxen pulling, barbeque, canoe races, log chopping contest, magic show, chalk talk, and street dance."

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 - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… Youth for Christ International, and a Yule Log pit. It is estimated that 500,000 people saw the Pageant in person with many millions watching the…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… settled in 1764 by Shubael Williams who built a log house next to Bounty Cove near the center of the island."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"With mechanization of logging and potato farming, the tribe’s economic role disappeared. The people were left to fend for themselves without any…"

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."

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."