Keywords: Sandy River (Me.)
Item 57793
Blue Ledge on the Sandy River, Strong, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Strong Media: Glass Negative
Item 4232
Suspension bridge, North New Portland, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: North New Portland Media: Photographic print
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.
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Welcome to Strong
"The 1790 census record lists “Sandy River, Middle Twp.” Soon it became known as Readstown, for the settlement proprietor, William Read."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3
"1910 Today one can still hitch ride on the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad at their museum in downtown Phillips."