Keywords: Fish River Railroad
Item 10025
Railroad bridge construction, Fish River, 1902
Contributed by: Fort Kent Historical Society Date: 1902 Media: Photographic print
Item 18627
Fish River Railroad bridge construction, ca. 1902
Contributed by: Fort Kent Historical Society Date: circa 1902 Media: Photographic print
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Construction of the Bangor and Aroostook rail lines into northern Aroostook County in the early twentieth century opened the region to tourism and commerce from the south.
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Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad
"Click for Railroad Photos The new railroad had an immediate and profound impact. Mills built along the railroad made Strong the logging community it…"
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Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort
"… goods and red tokens were for things like meat, fish, butter, fat, and dairy goods. Rationing Gas The OPA, the Office of Price…"
