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Burnt Harvest: Penobscot People And Fire, James Eric Francis Sr.
Burnt Harvest: Penobscot People And Fire, James Eric Francis Sr.
Maine History
The scientific and ethnographic record confirms the fact that in southern New England, Indians used fire as a forest management tool, to facilitate travel and hunting, encourage useful grasses and berries, and to clear land for agriculture. Scholars have long suggested that agricultural practices, and hence these uses of fire, ended at the Saco or Kennebec, with Native people east of this divide less likely to systematically burn their forests. This article argues that Native people on the Penobscot River used fire, albeit in more limited ways, to transform the forest and create a natural environment more conducive to their …
Henry Mowat: Miscreant Of The Maine Coast, Louis Arthur Norton
Henry Mowat: Miscreant Of The Maine Coast, Louis Arthur Norton
Maine History
This article follows the career of Captain Henry Mowat as he took charge of operations for the British Navy off the Maine Coast during the Revolutionary War. Mowat was involved in three decisive actions during this time: the dismantling of Fort Pownall at the mouth of the Penobscot River; the burning of Falmouth, or present-day Portland; and the defeat of the Massachusetts naval expedition to the British-occupied Bagaduce Peninsula on the eastern side of Penobscot Bay. The author asks the question: did this British officer deserve his reputation among Mainers as an “execrable monster?” Louis Arthur Norton is a professor …
E. S. Coe And The Allagash Wildlands, Dean B. Bennett
E. S. Coe And The Allagash Wildlands, Dean B. Bennett
Maine History
For more than half a century; land agent and timber-land owner Eben Smith Coe oversaw the operations of Chamberlain Farm, a large logging depot built in 1846 on the shore of Chamberlain Lake in Maine's famed Allagash region. From its founding to the present, the land on which he built the farm has undergone a succession of changes that provides insight into the meaning of wildness in American culture. Now protected as part of the Allagash wilderness waterway, Chamberlain Farm has come a full circle, and is now a fair semblance of the wilderness early native and Euro American visitors …
The Disciples Of Samuel Ely: Settler Resistance Against Henry Knox On The Waldo Patent, 1785-1801, Alan Taylor
The Disciples Of Samuel Ely: Settler Resistance Against Henry Knox On The Waldo Patent, 1785-1801, Alan Taylor
Maine History
The article recounts the controversy and violence that surrounded the claims in the Waldoborough area. This claims were made by General Henry Know and the heir to the Waldo family, British Loyalists, who sought to reclaim the land after the end of the Revolutionary War.
A New Look At The Invasion Of Eastern Maine, 1814, Barry J. Lohnes, Ronald Banks
A New Look At The Invasion Of Eastern Maine, 1814, Barry J. Lohnes, Ronald Banks
Maine History
The article discusses the capture of Eastern Maine by the British in 1814 and the roll of politics and the Massachusetts Governor in the loss. It is followed by a Comment on the article by Ronald Banks.