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MADOCHENQUICK ~ MEDUCTXNICOOK ~ MEDUCTSINICICK ~ MEDUCKSINIKECK ~ MEDUCTXNICK ~ MADUCTSINICIK~ * MADAXNIKIK ~ MEDUCTSNICICK ~ MEDUCTICNICICK ~ MEDUCTINICIKICK ~ MADXWAWICK ~ MADISHNAKICK ~ MADUXNEKEEK ~ MEDUKSENEEKIK ~ Loons near island on Drew’s Lake Exploring the “Maliseet aboriginal territory consisted on 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 Eagle Flying over Meduxnekeag in Down town Houlton Prestile Stream Watershed Canadian segments, MaliseetMeduxnekeag occupation of their aboriginal home representsWatershed 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 Advent Swamp was by salt water to St. John up the St John to Woodstock and thence overland to Houlton. The other was up the u ber 9 S Penobscot and Mattawamkeag Rivers and the Baskahegan Stream and Lake to a point near Danforth, by portage N m trea m k oo to Grant Lake, by lake and portage to Eel River, down Eel River the St. John, and up that river to Woodstock.” r Chandler Ridge B Mo r h Jim t ~ Aroostook, The First Sixty Years, Clarence A Day, 1989 e li Number 9 o p S Number u son Br Baby Ducks at Nine Mile Lake Mtn se k Maliseet Birchbark Canoes Nine Brk Aroostoook RiverSaddleback Watershed Mtn Lake D Portland un B H Map Legend West n B urn Lake i l t Lake l ro B rk Rivers and Lakes B r o o k Houlton Band of o Wetland Areas Hovey Hovey Mtn k Maliseet Indians S o Swamp Forested areas u D t keag e a h N d Agricultural Areas o B ne r th rook h S r Medux B t o M Watershed Borders ranc r o eado 1 e WOODSTOCK y B Nighthawk Mtn k a Political Borders ove w Br m FIRST NATION ook H ROADS Jewell Wellington Ridge Lake 1 0 3 5 Miles Scott Pond Bel NOR Little l KIloMeters Fowler Brook TH Rideout G Alerton Ho 1 0 3 Pond ou Lake Lake Brook y Gentle ld t B R R A Lake i Tr Bog v Gulch ac NC e S U 3 o y H ED XN r 2 Williamstown u B M ttle t B Li Pre h B EK sq Lake B rook rook RI VE u’ roo isl ro E AG e S o k R tr k eam W a ok t Conroy Lake e Br o r rook sk s r h a Li e ttl P Ross Lake d Bear B e Kettle ponds: basin in glacial H Deep Lake ow drift deposit: a steep-sided NO Brook ard rd basin, often a lake or swamp, RTH Maple Hill wa Ho in a glacial drift deposit, BR AN CH Big caused by the melting of an ice mass left behind as the B glacier retreated. Payson Lake rook *Historic Gentle Larr Iron Ore Hill Woodstock Swamp fly-honeysuckle Lake B For We Spring Flowering in bs rown M Tw k B ter SOUTH an Brook y Monticello near Dead Stream i s B BR rk ar n B Br AN Ha k Long Lake CH B rook roo Bib r e Fall with berries in Lt. Gordon Manuel le r k Britton Lake v k Bell Forrest i Br Wildlife Management Area Number Seven Ridge R oo Br n oo h k B Stream Cary Lake Moody Hill o J k Phillips Creek t 4 in Henry’s Half a Deep Lake S Moon Pond B Lake Litt MED Composite Watershed l k Logan Lake Meduxnekeag Valley e Mill Br UXNEKE Cameron (Jordan Pond) Nature Presrve Bog Bradbury Sm AG M Lake RIV ill Bro ith ER ok Col Br d Br ook D d e o g L ook G RIVER h am B s r r b o Estabrooks e o t Br EKEA a Dun oo k k Mountain Marley UXN W n Br r ook 10 e Co v ok i Brk Parks Hill M R Bradbury MED Bro oose Cochran Lake Lake 11 ok Br Bulls Creek Peabody Brook g County Rd. Glancy ook Pe a Lake Lake Watershed Composite Watershed e Timoney rk Cut-leaved toothwort B k Lake Carson Hannigan arce B Pond Locations of Maine’s Historic Mills Hammond woods area m Pond 13 xter Lambert 14 rook 1. J. Powers Saw Mill Fork Brook a Bear Brk Gould Green 15 Ba Pond Pond 2. Sharp’s Starch Mill w Timoney Mtn R. nd 12 a Po AR t 3. Sharp’s Saw Mill t a 19 ekeag kerson W Lake 16 4. S. Mill M 17 uxn Nic Hovey Hill 5. F. W. Titcomb’s Shingle Mill DREWS LAKE South *Location of 18 6. R. J. Baker Cabinet Factory Med B (Meduxnekeag Lake) ith ROOSTOOK Houlton Mills A and Shingle Mill er B Champion Mill rk 7. Woolen Mill k Pond THE n B ro Branc roo 8. Merrit Mill ok ne 7 Sam Drew Mtn Sto Brk 9. Getchell’s Foundry r i s o Stre DURING h Higgins B White Adder’s Mouth o r m m 10. Aaron Putnam’s Mill M a rea 8 11. R. S. Clough Flour Mill Boggy Area in ILITARY 20 St Hammond Sawyer 12. Mansur Starch Factory Pond keag US M 21 Me 5 13. Cheese Factory xne 14. Lumber Mill Showy Lady Slipper THE 9 du Crow Hill Medu22 15. I. B. Merriam Saw Mill A Patch found in Cary BY xn d 23 he 6 16. Shephard Cary’s Mill Plantation Wetland Johnson Pond ekea s USED Westford Hill er g at 17. Capt. Moses Drew’s Mill 18. S. & G. Mill OUTE W R r Riv 19. Iron Mine Maliseet Tribal Member Nora Estabrook 24 e iv 20. C. C. Hutchison Saw Mill Mud er Merrit Mill at Houlton Dam with Maliseet Ash Potato Basket R “In 1828, Congress made Lake l 21. Shingle Mill Hunter e 22. Carding Mill provision for a military road E Pond from Bangor to Houlton, which Daggett Hill 23. Grist Mill Fos 24. Shaw’s Tannery was completed in 1830.” Lt. Gordon Manuel Wildlife s Left: Houlton Mills at the Dam History of Aroostook County, N Management Area or on Meduxnekeag Maine By Geo. J. Varney, 1886 th Broo Bra n Coffin c g h k a y Br e ne Moose Along North Branch Bog ook k e Ha “Local farmers traded with uxn the Maliseets for potato k Med baskets woven from roo Eleven brown ash splints.” h B Mile Davis Lake Sout Brook Bog Tra Brk ok cy Fields and Forrests ro rel B rkB “... the territory was beginning to draw the attention of Changes in the Watershed: lumbermen from Maine and New Brunswick whose s Dur i w B o r v ad o Settlements, Dams, Logging & Natural Influences growing presence place the region’s magnificent stands e d a rk o he D k M s of pine timber at the center of the tense boundary dispute.” r Lynx seen near t B te This dispute precipitated the “Bloodless” Aroostook War a rk Firs “Twenty mills and factories were established in the area from (aka “Lumberjack’s War). “... the rich loamy oils of the Westford Hill W eastern boundary area also drew comments from 1810 through 1884. Seventeen remained in operation as of 1895. 2nd B r explorers, and by 1831 several agricultural settlements e They included saw, flour, lumber, and woolen mills; starch, Spring Hill v had encroached upon the wilderness.” i furniture, and sleight and carriage factories as well as electric R Aroostook: A Century of Logging in Northern Maine, light plant, steam planning mill and foundry and machine shop.” Richard W. Judd, 1989. St. Croix Burnt Dam Ridge “The first dam in the Maine portion of the watershed: “In the summer Beaver Dam at Nickerson Lake of 1810 Aaron Putnam had built a mill dam....” By 1877, an Aroostook County atlas indicates at least 22 dams existed in the watershed. Beavers also change the watershed from Story of Houlton by Cora Carpenter Putnam 1958 creating dams making new wetland areas, and small ponds. “Major changes in the watershed began with the arrival of Loyalist Beaver near Payson Lake, Canada 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 Coalition Classification Project” George Peabody, Simon Mitchell, 2006 Black Bear seen in Dudley MADOKENQUIK ~MADOCHEMQUICK ~MADUSHNAKEEK ~MADAZNIKIK ~MADUZNEKEAG ~MEDUXNEKEAG ~MEDEOCKSEENECASIS MEDUXNAKIC ~ MEDUXNAKIC ~MEDEOCKSEENECASIS ~MEDUXNEKEAG ~MADUZNEKEAG ~MADAZNIKIK ~MADUSHNAKEEK ~MADOCHEMQUICK MADOKENQUIK ~MEDUXNIKICK ~MADUCXSNIKIC ~MADUCKSNEKIC ~MADUCKSNEKICK ~MEDUXNAKEAG ~MEDUXNIKEAG ~MEDUXNIKEEK .