Keywords: Canoeing
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation
"… made the Maine guides had to row wooden boats and canoes a lot around the local ponds and lakes. The biggest trout caught during this time period…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family
"… roll them up; this made getting in and out of a canoe easier. One day, when she was getting off the train, she caught her skirt and was dragged…"
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"… documented in the map of the interior canoe route between the St. John (Wolostoq) and Penobscot rivers that Chief Francis Joseph Neptune shared…"
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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods
"Employee’s had to go in a canoe and get them in the parking lot. Written by Zac Sharpe Hallowell Flood 1987Hubbard Free Library The Flood of…"
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"The party canoed up the Kennebec River as far as Hallowell, which was known as Bombahook at that time."
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park
"… also arrive, in more romantic fashion, by boat, canoe, or ferry. From the slip at river’s edge, it was a climb up a steep set of steps, a walk…"
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Guilford, Maine - Special Events
"… Some other events were oxen pulling, barbeque, canoe races, log chopping contest, magic show, chalk talk, and street dance."
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Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church
"They came by horse and returned by canoe. Soon, people from Benedicta started coming to worship the Catholic religion in Lincoln."
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"Portaged canoes over Carrying Place bog to reach ocean travel routes. Harvested smelts and sweet grass. Ox Cart at N.W."
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future
"… Brook (today known as the Carrabassett River) by canoe late in the fall of 1783. He headed an adventurous family that for some reason chose not to…"
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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."