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Log jam at Ripogenus Gorge during 1870s log driving.. The North Maine Woods is the northern geographic area of the state of Maine in the United States.The thinly populated region is overseen by a combination of private individual and private industrial owners and state government agencies, and is divided into 155 unincorporated townships within the NMW management area. [1]
The Eagle Lake Tramway is a historic timber-transport mechanism in the remote North Maine Woods in northeastern USA. [2] The tramway, built in 1902 and operated until 1907, transported timber across a neck of land between Eagle Lake and Chamberlain Lake, with one end eventually becoming the eastern terminus of the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad in 1927.
American Loggers is a television series on the Discovery Channel. It was shot in Maine , debuted in 2009, and went off the air in 2011 after three seasons. Storyline
The locomotive boiler jackets and asbestos lagging were removed in 1995 but the stripped locomotive shells remain a unique reminder of the industrial revolution in the Maine North Woods. [7] Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad Consolidation locomotive #2 in operation Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad locomotive #2, abandoned in the Maine ...
A lumberjack c. 1900. Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in the United States, when trees were felled using hand tools and dragged by oxen to rivers.
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The Maine Forest and Logging Museum is a non-profit historical museum located in Bradley, Maine. It was founded in 1960 to preserve the history of forestry and logging in the state. Leonard's Mills is the centerpiece of the 1790s living history site which is home to the only operational water wheel powered, up-and-down sawmill in Maine.
The St. Zacharie, Maine – St. Zacharie, Quebec border crossing on the Canada–US border is one of four in the Maine Highlands.Two miles south of Little Saint John Lake, it is the westernmost crossing used primarily by people and vehicles involved in logging the forests in the North Maine Woods. [1]