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Rendezvous At Chesuncook: A Chronicle Of Surveyors, Landowners, Loggers, Settlers, & Sports, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

Abstract provided by the author:

Rendezvous at Chesuncook, 1827-1902 is the only comprehensive history of Chesuncook Lake and Chesuncook settlement (village) from 1827 through 1902.

The text’s two major focal points are people and old photographs. Over 350 biographical sketches include surveyors, landowners, lumbermen, drive bosses, loggers, settlers, and builders of dams and boats. For the 170 plus pictures this book is their only aggregate presentation. The photos communicate a history of what the landscape and settlements once looked like and how they changed over the decades in this book.

This book purposely ends December 30, 1902. Through 1902 the …