Keywords: Camp Caribou
Item 12261
Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1890 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print
Item 11130
The Boys at Camp Caribou, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1895 Location: Brookline Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
Exhibit
From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans
"The Paleoindians, ice age hunters of mammoth and caribou, camped around Munsungan Lake and quarried high quality red, green, and gray chert (flint)…"
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle
"… are the three thriving towns of Presque Isle, Caribou and Fort Fairfield, with an average population of about 4000 each and an average valuation…"
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life