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Keywords: Great Lakes region

Historical Items

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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

Item 7783

Pine Beach, Great Lake, Belgrade, ca. 1910

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

Online Exhibits

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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.

Exhibit

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.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… to the region’s many rivers, streams, and lakes. The Androscoggin, Nezinscot, Ellis, Swift, Webb, and Twenty Mile Rivers all provided water power…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 2 of 2

"… State Class A Championship game in Augusta (and Lake Region in the A/B playoff). The New England Championship tournament was held in Durham, NH at…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… A vs B playoff game in 1976, Rumford High crushed Lake Region by 50 points, thus ending the A/B playoff for all future Maine teams."

My Maine Stories

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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR