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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
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Richard W. Judd, 1989.
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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.”
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“Local farmers traded with
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“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
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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
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