Keywords: Black Pond
Item 27467
Walton Mill on Walton Pond, Farmington, ca. 1917
Contributed by: Farmington Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 149907
Convivial scene of four men sitting at a campsite, Black Pond, ca. 1910
Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: circa 1910 Location: Sedgwick Media: Glass negative
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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.
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement
"Patten's Bay, Patten's Pond and Patten's Pond Stream were named after him. In Samuel Wasson's Journal of East Surry, he attributes Jonathan Flye, an…"
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Weathervane Dispute
"Whitney, Clerk. Trustees were Floyd Black and Raymond Jacobs. Contentious weathervane at Claude L."
Story
A Loon's World
by Norma Salway
Loons on Songo Pond
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
