Deer Island, Piscataquis County, Maine
| Deer Island | ||
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| Waters | Moosehead Lake | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 35 ′ N , 69 ° 40 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Deer Island is an island in Moosehead Lake in Maine , the northeasternmost state in the United States . It measures about 5 by 1 to 2 km and is the second largest island in the lake, after neighboring Sugar Island .
history
In 1912, an archaeological investigation in around 50 places around the lake and on the islands unearthed archeological artifacts in 21 places . Arrowheads were also found on Deer Island in the early 1920s . There are also burial sites on the island for the Kineo Band of Malicites , a Maliseet tribe also known as the Moosehead Lake Indians . He applied for official recognition as a tribe in 2012.
1834 bought Aaron Capen (1796-1886), a general in the militia of Massachusetts, along with his son Deer Iceland and to Sugar Iceland to where white pine to make (white pines). Aaron Capen's family came from Dorchester, near Boston, Massachusetts . There were hotels on both islands at the end of the century.
The island is uninhabited today; at the north end there is a campsite.
Remarks
- ^ Warren King Moorehead: A Report on the Archeology of Maine , AMS Press, 1922, p. 215.
- ^ Warren King Moorehead: A Report on the Archeology of Maine , AMS Press, 1922, p. 15.
- ^ Tribes fear loss of public funds with plan for new Moosehead tribe , in: Bangor Daily News, August 31, 2012.
- ↑ Jeffrey S. Cramer (Ed.): Henry David Thoreau: The Maine Woods. A Fully Annotated Edition , Yale University Press 2009, p. 84. Thoreau lived from 1817-62.
- ^ Nathan D. Hamilton, Cynthia A. Thayer: The Moosehead Lake Region, Maine , Arcadia Publishing 1995, pp. 38f.