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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
A history of the lumber industry in the state of New York (US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Forestry, 1902) online; Fries, R. J. Empire in Pine. The Story of Lumbering in Wisconsin, 1830-1900 (1951); Irland, Lloyd C. "Maine Lumber Production, 1839-1997: A Statistical Overview." Maine History 38.1 (1998): 36–49. online
Logging crews penetrated deep into the Maine woods in search of pine (and later spruce) and floated it down to sawmills gathered at waterfalls. ... Maine A History ...
In 1960 Gale and Mary Torrey of Poland, Maine leased the camps and land from several paper companies. There were very few roads in the area at that time and access was via a 4-wheel drive road starting from a parking lot at Big Lyford Pond near Kokadjo and proceeding southerly along the west side of the Pleasant River.
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]
Shortly after statehood in 1820, the Maine government began surveying the lands around the current national monument. For over 100 years, from the early 18th century to the late 19th century, logging was the primary industry in the area.
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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.