Keywords: Long Pond
Item 24010
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Seal Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 79051
Little Long Pond, Seal Harbor, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Northeast Harbor Library Date: circa 1940 Location: Seal Harbor Media: Photographic print
Item 89174
Downes property, East End Avenue Near Ice Pond, Long Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Cynthia A. Downes Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 116307
Fitzgerald house, Brighton, VT, 1888
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1888 Location: Brighton Client: George H. Fitzgerald Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Exhibit
Mainers began propagating fish to stock ponds and lakes in the mid 19th century. The state got into the business in the latter part of the century, first concentrating on Atlantic salmon, then moving into raising other species for stocking rivers, lakes, and ponds.
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.
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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"Toddy Pond itself was not a pond, but rather a river valley known as Eastern River until 1830 when dams were built to operate saw mills ."
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"They've also interviewed several long-time Surry residents. X X The first five exhibits for this project, completed during the 2011-2012…"
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
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Childhood Memories of Learning to Swim on Rangeley Lake
by Betty C.
Betty's two older sisters taught her how to swim on Rangeley Lake.
