Keywords: lake sports
Item 17345
Mantle Lake, Presque Isle, 1887
Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society Date: 1887 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print
Item 5495
Athian Lewey, West Grand Lake, 1898
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 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
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.
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention
"Katahdin, Moosehead Lake, Rangley Lake, as well as various other locations along Maine’s woodlands and coast."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3
"Our Lady of the Lakes chapel is still there and holds regular services during the summer. Next door, the Outdoor Sporting Heritage Museum enshrines…"
Story
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.
Story
A Splash of Water
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin
Reminisce of a lifetime on Little Sebago Lake
