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Item 116552

Lake Kaseiganagh east to Lake Superior, ca. 1825

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1817–1827 Media: Ink on paper

Item 116554

Lake Kaseiganagh east to Lake Superior, duplicate, ca. 1825

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1825 Media: Ink on paper

Item 74256

Georgina Shaylor, Forest Lake, 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1925 Location: Gray Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Student Exhibit: Logging on Kennebec River

I became interested in the Kennebec River log drive when my grandfather would tell me stories. He remembers watching the logs flow down the river from his home in Fairfield, a small town along the Kennebec River.

Exhibit

Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town

Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.

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Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps

The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.

Site Pages

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Julia Harris May poetry collection, 1903

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… of her verse include Queen Catherine’s Rose which was published in 1885, The High-Top Sweeting: and other poems published in 1891, and The Ballad…"