Woodlot Tour:
Features:
Features:
| Cemetery: This is a picture of a family cemetery plot located on us. This family suffered from Scarlet feaver I believe in the 1850's and wiped out the entire family. From infants that are unnamed, to adults, the Scarlet Fever showed no mercy! |
| Dump: It was pretty common back in the 1950's for people around here to turn old gravel pits into dumps. We were not immune, and while this dump is covered up now, its still an eye sore. |
| Gravel: We got gravel. Everywhere we dig up earth, we find more, and good gravel at that. This gravel bank has bank run gravel, 1½ inch minus, right out of the bank unscreened. It only comes in pockets, but when you hit the veins, it sounds like, and looks like, washed rock as there is little soil between the rocks. |
| Gravel: More gravel banks. This one was used as fill underneath my parents new house |
| Old Inn: Back in the day, East Thorndike had a major road going through it. Travelers going from Augusta to Bangor would take the road, and this cellar hole was once an old inn and stable that helped travelers along their way. The center lump of snow you see was the foundation for the massive stone fireplace. Just outside the picture there are stone foundations for the horse paddocks and the stables. |
| Quick Sand: It looks like a lump of snow here, but this low spot is actually quick sand. During the summer, on even the hottest, driest days of the year, ATV's can find mud here. They better beware though, while working this woods back in the 1920's, my Great-Grandfather lost a team of horses here. Their trashing made them sink deeper and deeper until they were lost. A 30 foot pole was once used to try to find the bottom, but a bottom was never reached. |
| Sand Pit: Not far away from the quick sand is this sand pit. Loaded with dead sand, its not surprising that a combination of dead sand, and a spring, could easily produce quick sand. What looks like a dump in the picture, is actually the remains of my fathers old house which burned down due to an outside wood boiler. Its needs to be burned by the local fire department. |
| Pond: This is our pond. Since we live on a hill, it goes dry during the dead of summer, but for 3/4 of the year we skate on it, jump over it with our snowmobiles, and generally just have a good time with it. In years past it watered ducks, cows, sheep and pigs. |
Potato Fields:
While this Big
Field is pretty
much featureless,
it is not without
some interesting
history. In the
1940's, my Great
Grandfather has a
vast Potatoe Farm
and contacted the
War Department.
To the dismay and
rage of his
neighbors,
German POW's
from bangor came
down every day
during the harvest
season topick
potatoes in this
very field. The
rage occured
because they
were actually
treated good. This
was at a time
when our troops
were dying.
While this Big
Field is pretty
much featureless,
it is not without
some interesting
history. In the
1940's, my Great
Grandfather has a
vast Potatoe Farm
and contacted the
War Department.
To the dismay and
rage of his
neighbors,
German POW's
from bangor came
down every day
during the harvest
season topick
potatoes in this
very field. The
rage occured
because they
were actually
treated good. This
was at a time
when our troops
were dying.
Swamp:
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