Sugar Island (Piscataquis County, Maine)
| Sugar Island | ||
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| Waters | Moosehead Lake | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 36 ′ 6 ″ N , 69 ° 37 ′ 17 ″ W | |
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| length | 6 km | |
| width | 2 km | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Sugar Island is an island in Moosehead Lake in Maine , the northeastern state of the United States . It measures about 6 by 2 km and is the largest island in the lake. According to a report from 1902 it measured 4950 acres , others wrote of 7000 acres. Sugar Island is accessible through Lily Bay State Park on the east side of the lake. Part of the island is protected (game preserve).
history
As in several places on Moosehead Lake, at the bay opposite Sugar Island, Lily Bay, arrowheads were found that were discovered in the early 1920s, similar to Deer Island , which is west-southwest of Sugar Island. As early as 1912, an archaeological study of around 50 places around the lake and on the islands had unearthed archaeological artifacts in 21 places . The island is home to the burial sites of the Kineo Band of Malicites , a Maliseet tribe also known as the Moosehead Lake Indians . The tribe applied for recognition in 2012.
(1796-1886), in 1834 bought Aaron Capen a general in the militia of Massachusetts, along with his son Deer Iceland and Sugar Iceland to where white pine to make (white pines). In the late 1880s, Capen's Hotel was on the island, which included a golf course, as well as a few cottages . There was also a hotel on Deer Island. Aaron Capen's family came from Dorchester , Massachusetts .
Wanna Eagle († 1967), a well-known in the region Penobscot , was the daughter of Chief Henry Red Eagle, an Indian born in Greenville. He was the first Indian to graduate from Greenville High School . Wanna Eagle worked in horse shows but was also successful as a swimmer; she worked as a swimming instructor at Far Rockaway High School (New York). There she worked with handicapped children, especially polio victims , and also ran a swimming camp on Sugar Island. She was also buried there.
Even after the major changes in the tourism industry that left the hotels deserted, two camps were regularly visited by two families. The island is otherwise uninhabited today. There are four campsites around Galusha Cove in the east of the island, and another on the northwest side.
Remarks
- ↑ Documentary History of the State of Maine, Volume 8, p. 266; John Wesley Hanson: History of the Old Towns, Norridgewock and Canaan. Comprising Norridgewock, Canaan, Starks, Skowhegan, and Bloomfield, from their Early Settlement to the Year 1849; Including a Sketch of the Abnakis Indians , 1849, p. 112.
- ^ Warren King Moorehead: A Report on the Archeology of Maine , AMS Press, 1922, p. 15.
- ^ Warren King Moorehead: A Report on the Archeology of Maine , AMS Press, 1922, p. 215.
- ^ 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 to 1862.
- ^ Nathan D. Hamilton, Cynthia A. Thayer: The Moosehead Lake Region, Maine , Arcadia Publishing 1995, pp. 38f.
- ↑ Everett L. Parker: The Moosehead Lake Region. 1900-1950 , Arcadia Publishing 2004, p. 56.
- ↑ Your tombstone can be found here ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
