Keywords: Stand up canoeing
Item 100435
Poling up the West Branch, Penobscot River, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Norcross Heritage Trust Date: circa 1920 Location: T1 R9 WELS Media: Photographic print
Item 152013
Man with a canoe near river and rocky cascade, 1906
Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: 1906 Media: Film negative
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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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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.
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock
"The party canoed up the Kennebec River as far as Hallowell, which was known as Bombahook at that time."
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"… for thousands of years - fishing its waters, canoeing to the headwaters each summer, and living in villages farther up river each winter."
