engineering

Pittston Farm

Pittston Farm is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Pittston Farm rather than just read about it. In short: Pittston Farm is a historic farm and community complex in a remote part of northern Somerset County, Maine. Located down logging roads about 20 miles (32 km) north of the village of Rockwood, the farm was developed c. 1910 by the Great Northern Paper Company to provide food and other resources to workers on logging drives in Maine's northern forests.

Key takeaways

Pittston Farm belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Pittston Farm to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Pittston Farm from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Pittston Farm is a historic farm and community complex in a remote part of northern Somerset County, Maine. Located down logging roads about 20 miles (32 km) north of the village of Rockwood, the farm was developed c. 1910 by the Great Northern Paper Company to provide food and other resources to workers on logging drives in Maine's northern forests. It is believed to be the best preserved of the few such facilities established, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. Its surviving buildings are currently operated as a tourist establishment.

Description and history Pittston Farm is set on the western end of Seboomook Lake, just south of the point where the North Branch Penobscot River drains into the lake. It occupies a 60-acre (24 ha) parcel of land set in a bend of the river. The nearest community of any size is the unincorporated village of Rockwood, located on Moosehead Lake about 20 miles (32 km) to the south on logging roads. The farm property includes seven buildings that were built between 1908 and 1915 by the Great Northern Paper Company, which purchased the entire Pittston Academy Grant township in 1906. The farm, established on land cleared for farming late in the 19th century, was intended to supply loggers and their support animals with food and supplies, as well as accommodations, medical facilities, and recreational opportunities. It was one of twelve such facilities established by the company.

The principal residential building in the complex is the boarding house, built in 1907. It is a large 2+1⁄2-story frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof and a porch that wraps around to the side. This building originally housed a large dining room, kitchen, and sitting room on the first floor, bedrooms on the second, and a hospital space on the third. To the left of the boarding house is a wide single-story carriage barn, with seven bays for carriages that have since been adapted for housing. To its left is the two-story blacksmith's shop, which retains original forge equipment. These two structures were built in 1908. The other main buildings on the property are a two-story office and three barns, one of which was built in 1908, the rest following in 1911. A metal-sided service building was erected on the property in 1955, replacing one destroyed by fire, and there are a collection of cottages, built at various times after 1948 that are set a short way from the main complex. The property was managed as a farm by the Great Northern Paper Company until 1971, by which time logging drives were in decline, and it was more cost-effective to truck supplies in. Logging drives came to an end in 1971, when the company ended all support operations at the farm. From 1973 to 1991 the property was used by the Boy Scouts of America as a summer camp, and a number of its buildings succumbed to fire and the elements. In 1992 it was sold to owners who rehabilitated the property for use as a tourism facility. It has since been resold to Guy and Jenn Mills and family, who are operating it as a hotel, restaurant, and campground.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Pittston Farm

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Pittston Farm claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Pittston Farm before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Pittston Farm ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Pittston Farm

In research: Pittston Farm appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Pittston Farm in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Pittston Farm is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1908 establishments in Maine, Buildings and structures completed in 1908, Buildings and structures in Somerset County, Maine, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Pittston Farm outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Pittston Farm in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Pittston Farm means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Pittston Farm out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Pittston Farm in simple terms?

Why does Pittston Farm matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Pittston Farm?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Pittston Farm.