Excerpt from History of Piscataquis County, Maine: From Earliest Settlement to 1880 But all the dim footprints of these hardy pioneers have not been blotted out. Much that they told to their children, deeply engraven on the retentive tablets of early childhood, still abides with the surviving. With great pleasure I refer to Henry B. Sargent of Milo, Ezekiel Chase of Sebec, Eben Lambert and Mordecai Mitchell of Dover, Mrs. Sarah J. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This book is the only one that has more than a couple paragraphs about Maine's great fire of 1825 that burned nearly the entirety of the Piscataquis River Valley watershed. Furthermore, it is the only publication of any form that uses existing information to create a possible map of its boundary lines. The fire influenced the nature of logging in the watershed for over the next 100 years. Each chapter is an accounting of the logging, 1800-1950, on the main river and the tributaries of the watershed.