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Historical Items

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Item 9595

Team of trained moose, Caribou, 1942

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: 1942 Location: Caribou; Chelmsford Media: Ink on paper

Item 16706

Aroostook State Training School Basketball Team, 1938

Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society Date: 1938 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print

Item 88010

View from Moosepeak Light, Jonesport, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Jonesport Media: Glass Negative

Online Exhibits

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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.

Exhibit

World Alpine Ski Racing in Maine

Sugarloaf -- a small ski area by European standards -- entered ski racing history in 1971 by hosting an event that was part of the World Cup Alpine Ski Championships. The "Tall Timber Classic," as the event was known, had a decidedly Maine flavor.

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Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers

Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"Mosquitoes, black flies, leeches, and moose flies were all annoyances that the loggers had to put up with."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… recognition of settlement on the ground led Moose Island (the location of modern-day Eastport, Maine) to go to the US, while loyalist homesteads on…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"After confiscating a large quantity of beaver and moose pelts, Church and his men sailed away, and the recorded history of Islesboro (called Longue…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life