Keywords: Fish River Lake
Item 35494
Camp on Fish River Lake, ca. 1900
Contributed by: D'Anne Baillargeon through Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Portage Lake Media: Glass Negative
Item 13613
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1891-05-31 Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Mainers began propagating fish to stock ponds and lakes in the mid 19th century. The state got into the business in the latter part of the century, first concentrating on Atlantic salmon, then moving into raising other species for stocking rivers, lakes, and ponds.
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.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake
"The different fish in Porter Lake are the landlocked salmon and lake trout, brook trout, rainbow smelt, smallmouth bass, white perch, yellow perch…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3
"Cornelia Crosby, Moosehead Lake, ca. 1895 Fly Rod fishing in front of Mt. Kineo along the shores of Moosehead Lake.Maine Historical Society The pen…"
Story
Water is Music
by P Leone
Throughout her life water has played an important part
