Maine Memory Network

Henry Withee, Rockport, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Rockport; Rockport Media: Photographic print

Henry Withee, Horace Bailey, Fort Kent, 1911

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1911 Location: Fort Kent Media: Photographic print

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.

Making Paper, Making Maine

Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.