Keywords: Indian Pond
Item 74733
Harris Dam and hydro station, Indian Pond, ca. 1955
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1955 Location: Greenville Media: Photographic print
Item 15310
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Maine Media: Lantern slide
Exhibit
Passamaquoddy Indians from Washington County traveled to Portland in 1920 to take part in the Maine Centennial Exposition. They set up an "Indian Village" at Deering Oaks Park.
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
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation
"Pierpole was an Indian that first discovered Strong. Pierpole fished a lot too. Trapping has always been popular in our area."
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson presents an overview of the history of the fur trade in Maine with a focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, on how fashion influenced that trade, and how that trade impacted Indigenous peoples and the environment.
