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Meduxnekeag Watershed stil eS tre am Wa te k o Br nn Du ok Bro Hill ok ok Jewell Lake NORT ll Be k Park ar Br oo UXNEKE ed AG R IV E R ke ED M r Wa k oo Ar e th ng du ri lit ar y 5 e xn Haney uxnekea g ve r Eel R i Merrit Mill at Houlton Dam Du rrel B Brk Firs t Brk vis 2nd B rk d ow ook Br Da Spring Hill Burnt Dam Ridge Beaver Dam at Nickerson Lake er d she Changes in the Watershed: Settlements, Dams, Logging & Natural Influences “Twenty mills and factories were established in the area from 1810 through 1884. Seventeen remained in operation as of 1895. They included saw, flour, lumber, and woolen mills; starch, furniture, and sleight and carriage factories as well as electric light plant, steam planing mill and foundry and machine shop.” St. Croix Beavers also change the watershed creating dams making new wetland areas, and small ponds. Beaver near Payson Lake, Canada Black Bear seen in Dudley Locations of Maine’s Historic Mills 1. J. Powers Saw Mill 2. Sharp’s Starch Mill 3. Sharp’s Saw Mill 4. S. Mill 5. F. W. Titcomb’s Shingle Mill 6. R. J. Baker Cabinet Factory and Shingle Mill 7. Woolen Mill 8. Merrit Mill 9. Getchell’s Foundry 10. Aaron Putnam’s Mill 11. R. S. Clough Flour Mill 12. Mansur Starch Factory 13. Cheese Factory 14. Lumber Mill 15. I. B. Merriam Saw Mill 16. Shephard Cary’s Mill 17. Capt. Moses Drew’s Mill 18. S. & G. Mill 19. Iron Mine 20. C. C. Hutchison Saw Mill 21. Shingle Mill 22. Carding Mill 23. Grist Mill 24. Shaw’s Tannery Left: Houlton Mills at the Dam on Meduxnekeag Tracy Br k Wa t Davis Brook Bog 9 6 R i ve r Bro o th er at W Westford Hill d she ed M ro Lynx seen near Westford Hill 8 kea g St Mi US th e by us ed ut e Ro Sou 7 ok ok or st oo n Medu x Ni c rk a x t er B rk riso k ne ter sh ux er Riv Wa ed CH attawa M mkeag ersh at BR Eleven Mile Lake k d on k oo Br k Br o f no atio ills c o *L lton M Hou Daggett Hill Lt. Gordon Manuel Wildlife Management Area er ok y Bro tershed d o b a a Pe ite W s o p Com Bulls Creek Watershed k P on Pond or t h Br an Coffin Bog Parks Hill k River ns Joh 24 du Me 22 23 v ok Hunter ch Aroostook: A Century of Logging in Northern Maine, Richard W. Judd, 1989. Co o e 21 Ri Original village location Ston B rk m rea 20 Fields and Forests “... the territory was beginning to draw the attention of lumbermen from Maine and New Brunswick whose growing presence place the region’s magnificent stands of pine timber at the center of the tense boundary dispute.” This dispute precipitated the “Bloodless” Aroostook War (aka “Lumberjack’s War). “... the rich loamy soils of the eastern boundary area also drew comments from explorers, and by 1831 several agricultural settlements had encroached upon the wilderness.” ag C f Woodstock First Nation Estabrooks Hovey Hill ss Fo “Local farmers traded with the Maliseets for potato baskets woven from brown ash splints” Meduxnekeag Valley Nature Presrve k d ree ershe C t s ne’ Wa a e L sit po om Mountain 16 Sawyer Pond N Moose Along North Branch d Br Pe Champion Pond Mud Lake ar 13 c e B 14 ro Branch Medu xneke ag o Br ade ess mry road h r g ic on ilita , wh 8, C 182 for a m oulton n I “ H 0.” ision r to prov Bango in 183 County, d from omplete ostook , 1886 c ro ey was of A Varn . J. tory His By Geo e Main k 15 12 ak e ith South er ok m Crow Hill Maliseet Tribal Member Nora Estabrook with Maliseet Ash Potato Basket Bell Forest oo Br B ea M Showy Lady Slipper A patch found in Cary Plantation Wetland H o Bro se n 19 Gree R . Pond ag e ek kerson L Str g Hi NC Sm Mo o Lambert Pond ith o RA Me 11 oo Mill B ro Brook ook Glancy Lake 17 DREWS LAKE (Meduxnekeag Lake) 18 s gin HB ric k isto *H dstoc o o W Moody Hill Dog d Brook Br Bradbury Lake nB Payson Lake k 4 Bradbury Lake b Timoney Carson Lake Pond Be ar Br Timoney Mtn k Maple Hill AN Logan Lake (Jordan Pond) Co County Rd. Lake Hannigan Pond Gould B Pond RT H Britton Lake 10 Cochran Lake W oo k Br Br k Bib Bro o ook ar ley m O Brook Deep Lake m La Du M nn Stre a Miles KIloMeters Williamstown Lake Iron Ore Hill Br Cary Lake WOODSTOCK FIRST NATION 3 Gentle Lake Long Lake B Stream Cameron Bog N Big ok oo k Larr y B rook B Bro r l Sam Drew Mtn White Adder’s Mouth Boggy area in Hammond Brown Brk ter Mill R SOUT B Lake Lit tle M l Brk il Cut-leaved Toothwort Hammond woods area Fork Brook n Twi bs r k Henry’s Half Moon Pond Little Presqu ’isle Kettle ponds: basin in glacial drift deposit: a steep-sided basin, often a lake or swamp, in a glacial drift deposit, caused by the melting of an ice mass left behind as the glacier retreated. Deep Lake ow ard We B sar an M B Fork k roo eB Number Seven Ridge Hal Fall with berries in Lt. Gordon Manuel Wildlife Management Area VE RI ar rk A 23 Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians 5 0 Ross Lake H rook dB Swamp Fly-honeysuckle Spring flowering in Monticello near Dead Stream r 3 Conroy Lake Little Be Rive KE ook Br s How MEDUX H NE k oo Br ok k o ok Bro o NC 0 1 Gentle Lake yt Ho Br ro RA ld y B ut h B 1 Rideout Lake Alerton Lake H G Tr B og Gulch e Ridg Brook ou ac So 1 wB rook m ton Rivers and Lakes Wetland Areas Forested areas Agricultural Areas Watershed Borders Political Borders ROADS ad Strea M ling Wel Map Legend De do ea ro th B Hovey Br o g ea Medux Branch Scott Pond Little Fowler Pond Brook Portland Lake ur n t B rk o Hovey Hovey Mtn Swamp No r th oes chbark Can Maliseet Bir B West Lake Nighthawk Mtn son e Chandler Ridge Sp lit Br Number Nine Saddleback Mtn Lake k oo nek Ar oo Number 9 Mtn Mor k Br to oos Advent Swamp Number 9 S tream Jim Brk eho u s Baby Ducks at Nine Mile Lake Wa r e iv kR ed Joh nR ive r ed sh ter Sou MADOKENQUIK ~MADOCHEMQUICK ~MADUSHNAKEEK ~MADAZNIKIK ~MADUZNEKEAG ~MEDUXNEKEAG ~ MEDEOCKSEENECASIS rsh Sa int Pre “Maliseet aboriginal territory consisted of the entire region drained by the Saint John (Wulastoq) River in Maine and New Brunswick. Despite an international boundary that divided their land into American and Canadian segments, Maliseet occupation of their aboriginal home represents an unbroken continuum,” “A journey from Grand Lake to Northern Maine could have been accomplished by canoeing up Monument Stream portaging to the South Branch of the Meduxnekeag River where downstream travel could have been take on to the St. John River.” ~ The History of the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians in Aroostook County of Maine, Preliminary Report by James Wherry, June 1979 “Not only was Houlton the first American settlement in Aroostook, but for many years there were no others nearer than the districts around Bangor and Calais, and there were no roads connecting Houlton with any other part of Maine until 1827. There were two avenues of communication from the rest of the state. The easier was by salt water to St. John up the St. John to Woodstock and thence overland to Houlton. The other was up the Penobscot and Mattawamkeag Rivers and the Baskahegan Stream and Lake to a point near Danforth, by portage to Grand Lake, by lake and portage to Eel River, down Eel River the St. John, and up that river to Woodstock.” ~ Aroostook, The First Sixty Years, Clarence A Day, 1989 G ag in neke dux r Me e v o g Flyin Eagle n Dow lton Hou town a Me MEDUXNAKIC ~ Exploring the Loons near island on Drew’s Lake “The first dam in the Maine portion of the watershed: “In the summer of 1810 Aaron Putnam had built a mill dam....” By 1877, an Aroostook County atlas indicates at least 22 dams existed in the watershed. from Story of Houlton by Cora Carpenter Putnam 1958 “Major changes in the watershed began with the arrival of Loyalist settlers in the mid-1780s” ... “over the following fifty years, the appearance and ecology of much of the watershed was transformed ... in transporting timber downstream, tributary streams were altered with temporary “driving dams”; boulders were removed or demolished with explosives.” Meduxnekeag Watershed Classification Project” George Peabody, Simon Mitchell, 2006 ~ MADAXNIKIK ~ MEDUCTSNICICK ~ MEDUCTICNICICK ~ MADXWAWICK ~ MEDUCTINICIKICK ~ MADISHNAKICK ~ MADUXNEKEEK ~ MEDUKSENEEKIK ~ METAHKSONIKEK ~ MEDUCTXNICOOK ~ MEDUCTSINICICK ~ MEDUCKSINIKECK ~ MEDUCTXNICK ~ MADUCTSINICIK ~MEDUXNIKICK ~MADUCXSNIKIC ~MADUCKSNEKIC ~MADUCKSNEKICK ~MEDUXNAKEAG ~MEDUXNIKEAG ~MEDUXNIKEEK