Keywords: Allagash River
Item 103799
Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner Date: 1927-08-20 Location: Allagash Media: Photograph
Item 20226
Flat Bottom Boat, St. John River, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Allagash Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Allagash Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Exhibit
After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.
Site Page
View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans
"… were found along the lakeshores of the upper Allagash River and from surface collections of plowed fields on the George Sawyer farm in Ashland."
Story
My Peace on Earth
by Dana Eidsness
She left Maine for school and vowed she'd never move back.
