Keywords: animals of Wood Island
Item 18525
Sailor the dog rings fog bell, Wood Island Light, ca. 1903
Contributed by: Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: circa 1903 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 18526
Sailor, family dog, Wood Island Lighthouse, ca. 1903
Contributed by: Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: circa 1903 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
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.
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island
"… the town of Mount Desert which included the outer islands, there were 132 heads of families for a total of approximately 648 individual persons…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings
"Using tools made of stone, bone, wood, and natural plant and animal fibers, they harvested an incredibly diverse range of mammals, birds and fish…"
