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Maine used to be home to great forests of white pine, and in fact, in Colonial times, the King's foresters would blaze the straightest and best of them for use as masts, etc for the British Navy, and heaven help anybody who cut one down, even on their own property. In the Bangor town planning office, there is a huge photographic mural shot from the Brewer side of the Penobscot river toward the Bangor side. The whole scene is full of sawmills, docks full of lumber, and ships, ships, ships. You could cross from one town to the other just by walking or jumping from ship to ship. Since this was in the days of large-plate photography, I'm assuming it was in the late 1800's.Integral said:LOL, I am sorry I just had to laugh at that statement. But then I am from the PNW, we are now just logging sticks here, but our current sticks still are bigger then anything ever logged out of Maine. All Maine sticks are good for is 2 2x4s or pulp.
When was Maine the timber capitol of the US, 1820?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangor,_MaineIn the 19th century, Bangor prospered as a lumber port, and began to call itself "the lumber capital of the world". Most of the local sawmills (as many as 300-400) were actually upriver in neighboring towns like Orono, Old Town, Bradley, and Milford, Bangor controlling the capital, port facilities, supplies and entertainment. Bangor capitalists also owned most of the forests. The main markets for Bangor lumber were the East Coast cities - Boston and New York were largely built from Maine lumber - but much was also shipped directly to the Caribbean. The city was particularly active in shipping building lumber to California in the Gold Rush period, via Cape Horn, before sawmills could be established in northern California, Oregon, and Washington. Bangorians subsequently helped transplant the Maine culture of lumbering to the Pacific Northwest, and participated directly in the Gold Rush themselves. Bangor, Washington; Bangor, California; and Little Bangor, Nevada are legacies of this contact.