Maine Memory Network
Maine's Online Museum

Title: Mohican House, Lake George, Skowhegan, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House

Date: circa 1920

Location: Skowhegan

Media: Black & White Photograph

Title: Portage Lake, Portage, 1895

Contributed by: Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library

Date: 1895

Location: Portage; Chicago

Media: photogravure

Title: Caucomgomoc Lake, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1900

Media: Lantern slide

Ice: A Maine Commodity

Maine's frozen rivers and lakes provided an economic opportunity. The state shipped thousands of tons of ice to ports along the East Coast and to the West Indies that workers had cut and packed in sawdust for shipment or later use.

Moving Lumber, Growing Bangor

Bangor became the largest lumber port in the world in the early 19th century, aided by several dams that diverted water and made lumber drives down the Penobscot River possible.

John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman

John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.

Moosehead Messenger

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village

The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.