Keywords: Portage
Item 26420
Contributed by: Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: 1895 Location: Portage; Chicago Media: Photographic print
Item 148625
View of Portage Lake, ca. 1911
Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: circa 1911 Location: Portage Media: Postcard
Item 150794
School Building at Portage Lake, Portage Lake, 1903
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1903 Location: Portage Lake Client: unknown Architect: Coombs and Gibbs Architects
Exhibit
Construction of the Bangor and Aroostook rail lines into northern Aroostook County in the early twentieth century opened the region to tourism and commerce from the south.
Exhibit
Liberty Threatened: Maine in 1775
At Lexington and Concord, on April 19, 1775, British troops attempted to destroy munitions stored by American colonists. The battles were the opening salvos of the American Revolution. Shortly, the conflict would erupt in Maine.
Site Page
"… land across which Native American canoes could be portaged. Carrying Place is the narrowest place on the island, where, “…one can throw a stone…"
Site Page
"Portaged canoes over Carrying Place bog to reach ocean travel routes. Harvested smelts and sweet grass. Ox Cart at N.W."
