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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
Alvin Orlando Lombard was a blacksmith building logging equipment in Waterville, Maine.He built 83 steam log haulers between 1901 and 1917. [4] Resembling a saddle-tank steam locomotive, these log haulers were fitted with skis steered from a small platform placed in front of the boiler and propelled by a set of chain-driven continuous tracks.
The "Clean Waters Act" of the 1970s was responsible for the creation of miles of logging roads in this area and the camps became much less remote. In 1977 the Frantzman family leased 300 acres (1.2 km 2 ) of land and around 14 wood dwellings from the paper company that owns the camps.
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 ...
Log boom on St. Croix River in Maine, aerial photo taken in 1973 Timber marks on a log building in Sweden where they are called flottningsmärke. A log boom (sometimes called a log fence or log bag) is a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forests. The term is also used as a place ...
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.