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Chesuncook Village Association, Chesuncook Village, Maine
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West Branch of the Penobscot River
Public boat launch
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Smith Rock
Picnic site
Picnic site
A Birds Eye View of Chesuncook
Cemetery
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Come Visit Us! Chesuncook Map From Greenville or Millinocket, follow the Golden road to mile
mark 50 and take a right onto Pine Stream road which leads into the Village (around 14 miles). Just follow the road
or use your GPS. There are several public boat landings/launch sites as well as picnic sites with great views of Mt
Katahdin within the Village to which you can drive. If you've forgotten anything or would like to rent a boat or
canoe, have a meal, snacks, home made sodas and root beer floats, then do stop in at the Lake House and Store! Or
just stop in to see this HISTORIC 1864 Inn. Please call ahead for dinner reservations, as a heads up. Thanks!
www.chesuncooklakehouse.com
mark 50 and take a right onto Pine Stream road which leads into the Village (around 14 miles). Just follow the road
or use your GPS. There are several public boat landings/launch sites as well as picnic sites with great views of Mt
Katahdin within the Village to which you can drive. If you've forgotten anything or would like to rent a boat or
canoe, have a meal, snacks, home made sodas and root beer floats, then do stop in at the Lake House and Store! Or
just stop in to see this HISTORIC 1864 Inn. Please call ahead for dinner reservations, as a heads up. Thanks!
www.chesuncooklakehouse.com
~ Chesuncook Lake ~
ChesuncookVillage, Maine |
June 1, 2013
This picture was taken from the front lawn of the Lake
House toward Graveyard Point in the early 1900's. Note
the original school house building with tower. It was later
moved when the current 1916 dam was built which
elevated the water level at the shore in 1917. Up the hill it
went to a new home until it deteriorated and was later
demolished there in the mid 1930's. It's front steps are
still in place just off the roadway in the woods on the
corner lot of High & Main Street, just left of the Meeting
House. The first building in the foreground at left is the
New Bedford Camp.
House toward Graveyard Point in the early 1900's. Note
the original school house building with tower. It was later
moved when the current 1916 dam was built which
elevated the water level at the shore in 1917. Up the hill it
went to a new home until it deteriorated and was later
demolished there in the mid 1930's. It's front steps are
still in place just off the roadway in the woods on the
corner lot of High & Main Street, just left of the Meeting
House. The first building in the foreground at left is the
New Bedford Camp.
| Was published by the Social Service Division's "Spruce Woods Department" of the Great Northern Paper Company or GNPCO. It debuted April, 1921 as a magazine within the logging industry of the North Maine Woods and ran until October, 1928. The monthly publications were dedicated as "A Magazine of contact between the management and the men". |
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Back in the day.....
| BOOM BOATS |
| TRAINS |
| Thoreau visited Chesuncook village the summer of 1853 while on a trek through the 'Maine Woods' which became the title for his book. Click on photo to read the chapter titled 'Chesuncook'. |
When the P.L.D. was formed, few improvements on the river had been made. There was a dam at
the foot of Chesuncook Lake built in 1834 by W. J. Johnston for the Chesuncook Company. In
1865 repairs on the Chesuncook dam were made by John Town of Brewer, Maine for the sum of
$5,000. That year a committee, consisting of Gorham L. Boynton, Lysander Strickland and
George W. Pickering, were directed to build a dam across the "Rappogenus Dry Way". The next
year $5,000 was spent on removing obstructions and deepening the channel in order to improve the
navigation of the river between Chesuncook Lake and Nicatou.
The PLD began taking logs from the head of Chesuncook Lake in 1856. The logs were boomed
and a crew rowed ahead with an anchor and dropped it. The rope attached was reeled in by by a
capstan on the heads-works raft. In 1890 the "John Ross" was the first steam boat to take booms
(logs) down the lake. It was built at Northeast Carry. The John Ross was later replaced by the
Ansel B. Smith in 1902 which dicontinued service in 1927.
See more about "Boom Boats"
the foot of Chesuncook Lake built in 1834 by W. J. Johnston for the Chesuncook Company. In
1865 repairs on the Chesuncook dam were made by John Town of Brewer, Maine for the sum of
$5,000. That year a committee, consisting of Gorham L. Boynton, Lysander Strickland and
George W. Pickering, were directed to build a dam across the "Rappogenus Dry Way". The next
year $5,000 was spent on removing obstructions and deepening the channel in order to improve the
navigation of the river between Chesuncook Lake and Nicatou.
The PLD began taking logs from the head of Chesuncook Lake in 1856. The logs were boomed
and a crew rowed ahead with an anchor and dropped it. The rope attached was reeled in by by a
capstan on the heads-works raft. In 1890 the "John Ross" was the first steam boat to take booms
(logs) down the lake. It was built at Northeast Carry. The John Ross was later replaced by the
Ansel B. Smith in 1902 which dicontinued service in 1927.
See more about "Boom Boats"
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| We're a remote settlement living off grid within the unorganized township T5R13 in Maine's North Woods. This is the heart of Maine's logging country and we're it's "downtown". The 'Suncooker is a non-profit publication sharing the unique character of Chesuncook Village's past & present. It's hosted and published year-round in Chesuncook Village, Maine. |
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The Penobscot Log Driving Company 1846-1903
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| H I S T O R Y |
Chesuncook? What does it mean?
Abenaki (or Abnaki) is the origin language of the word Chesuncook. The Abenaki people inhabited eastern
Maine to southern Quebec.
Chesunk = "Goose"
Auke = "a place"
Abenaki (or Abnaki) is the origin language of the word Chesuncook. The Abenaki people inhabited eastern
Maine to southern Quebec.
Chesunk = "Goose"
Auke = "a place"
| What's in a Name? |
Chesunk or Schunk being the sound made by a wild goose. 'Chesuncook" was named by Abenaki people
long ago for the waters of the lake, not the land, nor any settlement. The 'village' was named after the lake
by Americans who settled here in the logging business more recently in the early 1800's. The wild Canadian
geese still pass through in Spring and Autumn. As they tend to be transient it's fair to say that their brief
stay makes Chesuncook Lake, not Chesuncook 'village' a 'meeting place for geese'. As the narrow lake is
about 18 miles long, which end of the lake the name originally referred to is anyone's guess. As the Abenaki
language varied depending on regions so did some of the meanings of its words.
And another explanation: In Henry David Thoreau's 'The Maine Woods', the chapter titled 'Chesuncook"
offers another explanation. In reference to a discussion amongst Abenaki Indians, Thoreau quoted: "They
never analyzed these words before. After long deliberation and repeating of the word, for it gave them much
trouble, Tahmut (an Abenaki) said that Chesuncook meant a place where many streams emptied in (?), and
he enumerated them, - Penobscot, Umbazookskus, Cusabesex, Red Brook, Caucomgomoc,-" Again the
reference is made to the waters, not the land. Take your pick, there are more where these came from.
long ago for the waters of the lake, not the land, nor any settlement. The 'village' was named after the lake
by Americans who settled here in the logging business more recently in the early 1800's. The wild Canadian
geese still pass through in Spring and Autumn. As they tend to be transient it's fair to say that their brief
stay makes Chesuncook Lake, not Chesuncook 'village' a 'meeting place for geese'. As the narrow lake is
about 18 miles long, which end of the lake the name originally referred to is anyone's guess. As the Abenaki
language varied depending on regions so did some of the meanings of its words.
And another explanation: In Henry David Thoreau's 'The Maine Woods', the chapter titled 'Chesuncook"
offers another explanation. In reference to a discussion amongst Abenaki Indians, Thoreau quoted: "They
never analyzed these words before. After long deliberation and repeating of the word, for it gave them much
trouble, Tahmut (an Abenaki) said that Chesuncook meant a place where many streams emptied in (?), and
he enumerated them, - Penobscot, Umbazookskus, Cusabesex, Red Brook, Caucomgomoc,-" Again the
reference is made to the waters, not the land. Take your pick, there are more where these came from.
