Keywords: North Bay (Moosehead Lake Me.)
Item 1025
Road to North Bay, Moosehead Lake, 1887
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1887-08-13 Location: Maine Media: Cabinet photograph
Item 1033
Mt. Kineo and Cliff Beach, North Bay, 1887
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1887-08-01 Location: Kineo Media: Cabinet photograph
Exhibit
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
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
"… 1763-1842 Manuscript Map of Moose River, Moosehead Lake, and Kennebeck Road, 1820Maine Historical Society Historian Francis M."
