Timber, Sporting, and Exploitation of the Moosehead Lake Region
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Maine Wilderness Transformed Timber, Sporting, and Exploitation of the Moosehead Lake Region |
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At the Osher Map Library and Smith Center
for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine, from
May 22nd, 1997 to January 7th, 1998.
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This exhibition explores of the creation of a landscape of exploitation in
interior Maine. The Native American use of Mt. Kineo rhyolite prefigured,
on a small scale, the extensive and paradoxical exploitation after 1820 both
of the region's forest resources and of its idealized essence as
"wilderness." When Henry David Thoreau made his tours through the
"Maine Woods" in the 1850s, the area was already the site of heavy capital
investment and speculation. After the Civil War, the tourism industry has--paradoxically--developed hand-in-glove with forestry. Instructions for using this site are given on the next page, so please advance now.
We welcome you to visit this exhibition in person. Special tours are
available for K-12 and other groups. For more information, including
directions and open hours, please connect to the Osher Map Library's
web-site, once you have finished viewing the exhibition.
Text © University of Southern Maine, 1997. Graphics ©
University of Southern Maine, 1997, particularly on behalf of Gerald D.
and Nathan D. Hamilton, with the following exceptions: items 5,19-23,27,29,39,68-70,72-76,80-81 are reproduced by permission of the Maine State Archives, Augusta; items 34,40,56 are
reproduced by permission of the Maine Historical Sociaty, Portland; and
item 36 is reproduced by permission of the Robert S. Peabody
Musuem of Archaeology, Andover, Mass. These three organizations retain
all rights and interests to their materials.
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