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Keywords: Katahdin
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Item 26062
Title: Katahdin Ironworks Furnace, 1966
Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands
Date: 1966-07-05
Location: Katahdin Iron Works
Media: Photograph
Item 26047
Title: Katahdin Ironworks Furnace Restoration, 1966
Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands
Date: 1966-09-13
Location: Katahdin Ironworks
Media: Photograph
Item 10823
Title: Katahdin, looking east, 1923
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1923-08-24
Media: Photographic print
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Exhibit
Named for the two largest things in Maine at the turn of the 20th century, Mt. Katahdin and Granger of Stetson, were known as the Largest Oxen in the World. Unable to do farm work because of their size, they visited fairs and agricultural events around the Northeast.
Exhibit
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.