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Keywords: Great Lakes

Historical Items

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Item 75120

Great Pond, Belgrade Lakes, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Belgrade Lakes Media: Linen texture postcard

Item 7778

Girls Camp, Great Lake, Belgrade, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Belgrade Lakes Media: Photoprint

Item 7767

Camp Abena, Belgrade Lakes, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Belgrade Lakes Media: Photoprint

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151771

Plan of Seboomook Farm, Seboomook, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1923 Location: Seboomook Client: Great Northern Paper Company Architect: Great Northern Paper Company

Online Exhibits

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Moosehead Steamboats

After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.

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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.

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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.

Site Pages

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"… the local brooks, the Sandy River, and in Porter Lake. Fly fisherman, starting in the 1800s, used some of the flies that originated in Maine like…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… eastern shore of the Kennebec and the Clarke and Lake Post in Arrowsic. Although some colonists persevered in the coming years, additional wars and…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Student Research

"Our two classes feel like we have learned a great deal about our town from our research about this time period."

My Maine Stories

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Bunkers and Lodges
by Bob Martin & Emily Holdtman Martin

Growing up in Maine, summering in Maine, and how it's changed.

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Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life

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Why environmental advocacy is critical for making baskets
by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune

My advocacy work for the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance