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Keywords: Waterways

Historical Items

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Item 105353

"Geographical, statistical, and historical map of Maine," 1826

Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1826 Media: Engraving

Item 111008

Pigeon River, including waterways between Lakes Kaseigunaha and Superior, ca. 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Media: Ink on paper

Item 79435

Rumford Point Ferry dock, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Rumford Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways

Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.

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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.

Site Pages

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s

"… down to the deep and sheltered channels on tidal waterways. Timbers could be laid down on the shores for ships and then easily launched upon…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"… exhibitions, and civic dialog about land and waterways in Maine. This project was made possible in part by the National Endowment for the…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"… call Ckuwapohnakiyik (the Dawnland), land and waterways were and remain embedded in a web of reciprocal relationships among people, animals…"

My Maine Stories

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Wabanaki Sovereignty
by Mali Obomsawin and Lokotah Sanborn

Bomazeen Land Trust, renewing and resuming Wabanaki caretaking and stewardship roles

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A New Beginning for Wabanaki Land Relationships
by John Banks

Wabanaki leadership in land stewardship