Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"The saw mill would make the logs in different shapes and sizes, so they could sell the logs to citizens who were in need of lumber."

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 - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… invaluable to the wood industry sporting many a “log drive” in its heyday. Soon Mr. Graves built a tannery, called by the villagers the “bark…"

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 - 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…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 1 of 2

"He saw the potential of a commercial venture when he viewed the power and grandeur of the Rumford Falls."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… Lake would eventually be, enough to run the three saws in the two saw mills for five years. In the beginning, all the lumber was used in Lincoln…"

Ambajejus Boom House

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Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"… and colorful “river drivers” who jumped from log to log to break up jams and keep the mass moving downstream."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"Saw Logs Over the Dam, Guilford, ca. 1880Guilford Historical Society As the new village began to grow and more settlers arrived, simple subsistence…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"After that, the head-saw broke the logs into cants, unfinished logs to be further processed. Edging took the trim off the logs."

Historic Hallowell - Industry on the Bombahook Citations

"Web. 03 May 2011. <http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logging>. Snell, Katherine H and Vincent P. Ledew. Historic Hallowell."

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

"Finally, the lumberman sawed the logs into lumber for shipment. Companies from around the world came to Bangor for the huge amount of revenue waiting…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"Soon there was a log store at the Seal Harbor beach, and one on the Northeast Harbor shore. Higgins Saw Mill, Somesville, 1890Southwest Harbor…"

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

"Saw Logs Over the Dam, Guilford, ca. 1880Guilford Historical Society On February 16 of 1806, Robert Low Jr."

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…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… bigger and thicker ones were used for the softest logs while the thinner axes were used for the hardest logs."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"The last drive was in 1976, and huge logging trucks have replaced the river in the transporting of logs to the mills."

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"They built their log houses during the summer, went back to Beverly and Andover Massachusetts before winter and came the following year with their…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"… 1901 a dam was created to be able to send large logs down the river to send them right to the lumber company."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"… 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."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… followed the trail to the last house, which was log and belonged to Mr. Rumford Smith. They followed a west-north-west compass route and crossed…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"to stop logging on land near Lower Hadlock Pond and adjacent to Route 198 that culminated in the conservation in perpetuity along a two mile corridor…"