Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"to stop logging on land near Lower Hadlock Pond and adjacent to Route 198 that culminated in the conservation in perpetuity along a two mile corridor…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

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

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Later, gasoline powered trucks were used until the ice harvesting operation closed down around 1950. Ice harvesting, Cascade Pond, Hallowell, ca."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Later, gasoline powered trucks were used until the ice harvesting operation closed down around 1950. Ice harvesting, Cascade Pond, Hallowell, ca."

Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"… Clay’s parents ended up moving to Cold Stream Pond in Enfield, and Jonathan Clay, Jr. later married a girl from Freedom, Maine."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"1915Islesboro Historical Society Meadow Pond, Islesboro, ca. 1900Islesboro Historical Society TURTLE HEAD AND MEADOW POND According to an…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"Three main people out. One of them was Enoch Pond, a founder of the Bangor Theological Seminary. In the early 1800's, Pond published a book against…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… Salmon Stream, and a small outlet from Davis Pond thus three areas; Guilford Village, Guilford Center, and North Guilford, each sprouting small…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 6 of 6

"He served as Manager of the Jordan Pond House, a Trustee of the Northeast Harbor Public Library, the Acadia Corporation, the Union Church, and other…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"… link to learn more about cutting ice on Cascade Pond in Hallowell. “Ice Mania” was the name of the icing industry; by a Maine newspaper in the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"… lumbermen began cutting around Folsom and Upper Ponds, sending the wood down the streams for transport to the saw mill."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Lumber Mill at the Mill Pond, Somesville, ca. 1905Mount Desert Island Historical Society Somesville was by now the economic and cultural center of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… at Black Point about a half mile north of Great Pond (later known as Massacre Pond), because the "neck" was too far away to be accessible to the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… and around the islands, swimming in Lower Hadlock Pond, climbing and tramping across the bare summits and through the forest, all the while…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"… rendered unrepairable when it fell into the ice pond in the park. It was soon replaced with the Spirit of the Sea."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… a parcel of land on the west side of Worthley Pond in the town of Peru. He contracted someone to build him a barn one year and a house the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… to travel from the Kennebec River, through ponds and streams, until they reached the Little Norridgewock to Sandy River."

Caribou Public Library

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Pond's main thesis was that slavery violated man's God given rights to freedom; slavery must be ended."

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… The Lubec Herald in July 1898: “The inlet to Mill Pond accommodated 240 accumulators of which sixty were pulled up each week."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"Radiocarbon dates from basal sediments of Mansell Pond indicate that it was ice free by 12,400 C14 yrs BP, or about 13,200 calendar years ago."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… over the mountain, past the west side of Worthley Pond, and continue southeast to the Sumner town line, which would then continue to the county…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… with 13 lakes—14, if the part of Cold Stream Pond that lies within Lincoln’s borders is counted."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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