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Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 5 of 5

"She was not allowed to go into the woods, but Edwena did go and pick apples. One farmer’s wife would bring everybody ice cream cookies and something…"

Princeton Public Library

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 84-107

"Ricker Mount Holyoke Weather records Wood Bishop & Co. Gardening Furber & Metcalf Hugh Ross Samuel C."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 72-120

"Thompson Mr. Farris Mel Andrews John D. Lander Henry A. Wood O. W. Davis Jr. Ernst Sjostedt R. Eugene Whittier E. C. Sweet J. W. Chapman"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 2 of 4

"… school when they had recess, they had to throw wood down into the cellar so that the teacher could get it later for it to be burned in a wood…"

Historic Hallowell - Earning Our Keep

"… taking full advantage of the bountiful natural resources; water, wood, stone. How might you have managed to get along two centuries ago?"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of North New Portland

"… old bridge appears to be mostly constructed of wood. The Concrete Bridge replaced the old bridge."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Perry Opera House

"… building was three stories tall and built from wood. In 1900, the building burned down for the first time."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 8 of 17

"The Saco River Driving Company served as the wood operation and river driving subsidiary of J. G. Deering & Son."

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

"… around Folsom and Upper Ponds, sending the wood down the streams for transport to the saw mill."

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

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Ambajejus Boom House

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Surry Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 48-64

"Strickland Hastings Strickland Henry H. Wood George W. Pickering Rufus Prince Arvida Hayford J. A. Cushing Benjamin Kimball George B."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin Jr., Bangor, 1865

"… Towle, wading in the mud in 1865; and with Fred Wood playing horse in 1864. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory…"

Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"Arch Bridge, Vaughan Woods, Hallowell, ca. 1932Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner Later, the Hallowell Light and Power Company…"

Oakfield Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - Logging

"Wood wasnʼt expensive at all, for it was natural and was in major production, but metal, on the other hand,was hard to find and was not in major…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"Gleason, attend to the objects of the wood, the rock, the teams, the hay, the wood for home consumption, the care of the buildings, and everything…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… A keen observer walking almost anywhere in the woods of western Maine will notice remnants of the past: stone walls that once enclosed open fields…"

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

"… with the loss of Atlas Plywood (the town’s major wood products industry) in 1935, signaled the end of “industrial” Stockholm."

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"Hollis moved the steam engine through the woods to Surry and used it to run another larger mill atop Cunningham Ridge."

Skowhegan Community History - Early Settlement in Skowhegan

"… was 1771 when people started to come up to the woods of central Maine to claim land that King Charles III was giving to anyone that would settle on…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… Blue Hill began in the spring of 1762 when Joseph Wood and John Roundy sailed "downeast" from the Boston colony to a sheltering bay at the foot of…"