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Historical Items

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Item 19745

Five Islands, East Grand Lake, ca. 1930

Contributed by: An individual through East Grand School Date: circa 1930 Media: Postcard

Item 116552

Lake Kaseiganagh east to Lake Superior, ca. 1825

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1817–1827 Media: Ink on paper

Item 116554

Lake Kaseiganagh east to Lake Superior, duplicate, ca. 1825

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1825 Media: Ink on paper

Online Exhibits

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Ice: A Maine Commodity

Maine's frozen rivers and lakes provided an economic opportunity. The state shipped thousands of tons of ice to ports along the East Coast and to the West Indies that workers had cut and packed in sawdust for shipment or later use.

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Moosehead Steamboats

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.

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Umbazooksus & Beyond

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 Pages

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Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"… and the usually placid waters of Gardner’s Lake, east of Machias in far Washington County. They gathered from Ridge, Split Hill, McCurdy, and…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"Tourists on their way to or from the Rangeley Lakes often stopped at the hotel (which eventually fell into disrepair and was torn down in 1969)."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Resources

"… Mountains of Maine, Steven Pinkham, Down East Books, 2009 Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine, Thomas Desjardin, Oxford University Press, 1995 Civil War…"

My Maine Stories

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An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania

Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021

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John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.

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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR