Maine Memory Network

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."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… for thousands of years - fishing its waters, canoeing to the headwaters each summer, and living in villages farther up river each winter."

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."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"From the slip at river’s edge, it was a climb up a steep set of steps, a walk across a footbridge over a ravine and then on through the main entrance."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… through the broad and fertile valley with canoe connections to the Belgrade\Kennebec Lake system.” (Above the Gravel Bar: The Indian Canoe Routes…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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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."

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."