Moosehead Lake Region: Gateway to Maine's North Woods

The Moosehead Lake Region, carved out of the last glacial age some 12,000 years ago, connected great river routes through the northern wilderness. For thousands of years, Native Americans canoed these waters, navigating to woodland summering grounds. By the 1830s, Moosehead Lake became a staging ground for early Euro-American logging, settlement, and outdoor recreation, with Greenville as its supply center. Early rusticators, like naturalist writer Henry David Thoreau, learned from Native A...