Maine Memory Network
Maine's Online Museum

Title: Hunting camp in Aroostook County

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum

Date: circa 1900

Media: monochrome photograph

Title: Hunting Camp, Limestone, ca. 1912

Contributed by: Robert A. Frost Memorial Library

Date: circa 1912

Location: Limestone

Media: Photograph

Title: Hunting camp on Day Mountain, Strong, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Strong Historical Society

Date: circa 1940

Location: Strong

Media: Black & white photograph

Address: 12-14 Hunt Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Perley E. Hunt

Use: Garage

Address: 9-13 Hunt Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Perley E. Berry

Use: Apartments

Address: 12-14 Hunt Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Perley E. Berry

Use: Dwelling - Two family

Hunting Season

Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.

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.

One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC

In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.

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.