Keywords: lumbermen's
Item 8364
Bateau at Patten Lumbermen's Museum, Patten, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Patten Lumbermen's Museum Date: circa 1930 Location: Patten Media: Photo negative
Item 8547
One of the buildings at the Patten Lumbermen's Museum, Patten, ca. 1965
Contributed by: Patten Lumbermen's Museum Date: circa 1965 Location: Patten Media: photographic print
Item 109111
Lumbermen's Quarters for Henry Disston & Sons, Inc., Brownville, 1951
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1951 Location: Brownville Client: Henry Disston & Sons Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
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Cooks and Cookees: Lumber Camp Legends
Stories and tall tales abound concerning cooks and cookees -- important persons in any lumber camp, large or small.
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Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka <em>Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England,</em> University Press of New England, 1984.)
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13
"Farmers and lumbermen not only used potatoes for food, they learned how to extracted starch from them for their own use to stiffen cloth for fancy…"