Bangor

Hannibal Hamlin, Carl Eugene Tefft, 1926
Luther H. Peirce was a 19th-century lumber baron who commissioned this sculpture as a tribute to area lumbermen. Bangor was the lumber capital of the country in the late 1800s. Two of the figures are based on real people: the legendary river driver Patrick Connors (age 86) and David Preble (a young logger) posed for the sculpture. They are shown breaking up a log jam using an ax, a cant dog, and a peavey to free up the jammed logs for their journey downstream to the mill. The memorial was erected on the site of the Peirce homestead in 1925. You know what an ax is, but what are a cant dog and a peavey?