Category: Nature & Geography, Natural Features, Lakes & ponds
Item 1010
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1923-06-15 Media: Photographic print
Item 1211
Lake Christopher, Bryant Pond, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Bryant Pond Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine's frozen rivers and lakes provided an economic opportunity. The state shipped thousands of tons of ice to ports along the East Coast and to the West Indies that workers had cut and packed in sawdust for shipment or later use.
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.
Story
Water is Music
by P Leone
Throughout her life water has played an important part
Story
A Splash of Water
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin
Reminisce of a lifetime on Little Sebago Lake
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson presents an overview of the history of the fur trade in Maine with a focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, on how fashion influenced that trade, and how that trade impacted Indigenous peoples and the environment.
