Maine Memory Network

Chesuncook Settlement, 1905

Contributed by: Baxter State Park Date: 1905 Media: Photographic print

Towboat A.B. Smith, Chesuncook, 1912

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1912 Location: Chesuncook Media: Ink on linen

Umbazooksus & Beyond

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.