Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… the salt-water environment, expertly handling canoes and hunting seal and porpoise. Swan’s Island may have attracted this tribe as a seasonal or…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"1850Abbe Museum With the Europeans came new diseases and colonial wars. After 150 years of these conflicts, barely 1,000 Wabanaki men, women, and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… Island Canoe Club encouraged “cooing, wooing, and canoeing,” as well as serious training in the “fine art of paddling.” Most members this…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"Richards, fascinated with these canoes, purchased this canoe before disembarking the steamer. Tudor and John Richards II, grandsons of Henry…"

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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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Lake system.” (Above the Gravel Bar: The Indian Canoe Routes of Maine, David Cook) It is very clear that Farmington’s Sandy River had for “ ……"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… the ocean, rivers, lakes and ponds in birch bark canoes, making seasonal journeys to hunt and gather wild animal and plant foods."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"The biggest trout caught during this time period was caught in Rangeley, and it weighted 16 pounds. Can you imagine? Blue Ledge on the Sandy…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… Some other events were oxen pulling, barbeque, canoe races, log chopping contest, magic show, chalk talk, and street dance."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"Portaged canoes over Carrying Place bog to reach ocean travel routes. Harvested smelts and sweet grass. Ox Cart at N.W."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"He headed an adventurous family that for some reason chose not to settle in Bloomfield, (now Skowhegan) Maine, but chose to venture further up river."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… travel was preferably done by water in canoes and small boats, following the example of Native Americans."