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Historical Items

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Item 73293

Clear Spring Trout Ponds, Bar Mills, 1924

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1924-09-03 Location: Bar Mills Media: Glass Negative

Item 73296

Clear Springs Trout Ponds hatchery, Bar Mills, 1924

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1924-09-03 Location: Bar Mills Media: Glass Negative

Item 73299

Breeding pools, Clear Spring Trout Ponds, Bar Mills, 1924

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1924 Location: Bar Mills Media: Glass Negative

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 110423

Butler residence, Northeast Harbor, 1987-2014

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1987–2014 Location: Mount Desert; Mount Desert Client: Gilbert Butler Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Item 110424

Butler residence preliminary master plan, Mount Desert, 1996-2003

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1996–2003 Location: Mount Desert; Mount Desert Client: Gilbert Butler Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Item 111336

Riverton Park, Portland, 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1895 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Raising Fish

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

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.

Exhibit

John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman

John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"… in Porter Lake are the landlocked salmon and lake trout, brook trout, rainbow smelt, smallmouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, chain pickerel…"

Site Page

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"The biggest trout caught during this time period was caught in Rangeley, and it weighted 16 pounds. Can you imagine? Blue Ledge on the Sandy…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"… Crosby’s affectionate nickname for native brook trout, in Mt. Blue Stream. Cornelia Crosby, Moosehead Lake, ca."

My Maine Stories

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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

Story

Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall

Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.