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Historic uses
Historic Uses of the Land
Cumberland's Rines Forest is a beautiful tranquil natural environment. Within its 275 acres grow large hemlock and pine trees as well as a sprinkling of red oak, birch, poplar, and maple. It is a perfect canopy for the forest's diverse wildlife which includes white tail deer, coyote, fox, wild turkey, ruffed grouse, and numerous wild birds. Along its boundaries, flows Mill Brook which winds its way through the forest providing visitors with beautiful waterfalls and places of solitude. Except for an occasional rock wall and a logging road or two, one can easily sense that they have escaped to a remote boreal forest far removed froma suburb of Maine's largest city.
Although the tract of land where the forest exists today was first surveyed by the E.C. Jordan Company of Portland in 1918 for J. Henry Rines, the history of the area suggests that the property experienced considerable change from the late 1700's until the turn of the twentieth century.