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Still Image		Group photo with log mark Maine Folklife Center, Still Image Photograph of the scaler and two other men and two dark horses are standing in back of a large log marked 'N'. Log marks were used to identify the logs cut by various companies along the same river. These marks were then used in order to sort the logs at the end of the spring river drive. (Relevance: 206) Find Similar Resources	Log brands Lumbering Lumbering

Sound		Interview with Ernest Kennedy Maine Folklife Center, Sound Selection from an interview with Ernest Kennedy conducted by Elizabeth Warner and Jack Beard. In the selection, Kennedy briefly describes the operation of a sorting boom. He describes how logs coming down the river are chosen by a checker based on their log marks, and sent to shore to be rafted with other logs belonging to the same company. (Relevance: 205) Find Similar Resources	Booms (log transportation) Log brands Log driving Lumbering Lumbering Rivers

Moving Image		From Stump to Ship Northeast Historic Film, Moving Image, 00:28:17 Depicts the year-round activities of the Machias Lumber Company on the Machias River in Washington County, Maine. Includes scenes of winter logging in the forest with hand tools and horses, as well as the spring log drive, with loggers using peaveys to break up log jams on icy rivers as the logs are moved from the forest to the mill. Lumber is also loaded onto schooners in Machias for transport to New York. (Relevance: 196) Find Similar Resources	Logging -- Maine -- History Lumbering Rivers

Moving Image		A Place Apart MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 00:27:01 Maine is a place apart from the mainstream of American society. Beginning early in Maine’s history, settlers, merchants, visitors, artists, and writers brought images of Maine to the rest of the world that shaped the State's economy, identity, and heritage. The history behind the image of Maine remains a vital part of how we and those from away view Maine today. (Relevance: 190) Find Similar Resources	Maine heritage European settlement History - Colonial Period

Moving Image		The Frontier Wars MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 00:27:01 Land disputes, tensions about resource allocation and European wars combined to trigger intense strife and armed conflict between Maine's English, French and Native populations. The Frontier Wars were a series of six wars spanning nearly a century that devastated populations in Maine, and had a permanent and chilling effect on the relations between English settlers and Native Americans. (Relevance: 186) Find Similar Resources	Natural resources Land Disputes Native Americans History - Colonial Period

Text		An Act Regulating the Rafting of Logs on the Kennbec River Fogler Special Collections, Text An Act Regulating the Rafting of Logs on the Kennbec River. A pamphlet reprinting the legislative act that regulated the use of the Kennebec River for log driving. (Relevance: 186) Find Similar Resources	Booms (log transportation) Log driving Lumbering Lumbering Rivers

Still Image		Shoring Logs Maine Folklife Center, Still Image Photograph of a group of men shoring logs during a river drive on the Wassataquoick River. Shoring logs was a process of moving logs off of the shore and back into the river. (Relevance: 180) Find Similar Resources	Log driving Lumbering Lumbering Rivers

Text		Log marks registered with the Kennebec Log Driving Company Maine State Archives, Text Log marks used to identify owners of logs run down river. (Relevance: 175) Find Similar Resources	Environment: Fur trade, survival, industrial development, forest, conservation Forests/Forestry Log Marks Lumbering Lumbering

Text		Memorandum of Lumber through Main and Argyle Booms Fogler Special Collections, Text Memorandum Return of the Different marks, prices in feet of Lumber that has passed through the Main & Argyle Booms on the Penobscot River, ending June 30th, 1858. (Relevance: 175) Find Similar Resources	Booms (log transportation) Log brands Log driving Lumbering Lumbering Recreation/Tourism

Text		Court case regarding obstruction of river Maine State Archives, Text Court case Crocker vs. Ellis et al regarding a dam across the Machias River preventing the passage of logs. (Relevance: 174) Find Similar Resources	Dams Environment: Fur trade, survival, industrial development, forest, conservation Forests/Forestry Judicial proceedings Waterways Lumbering

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