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    The North Maine Woods is the northern geographic area of the state of Maine in the United States. The thinly populated region is overseen by a combination...
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    century, logging was the primary industry in the area. The Maine Woods were made famous by the writings of Henry David Thoreau in the 1850s, and later saw...
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    Maine (/meɪn/ MAYN) is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48. It borders New Hampshire...
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    Henry David Thoreau (category Critics of work and the work ethic)
    to make a trip to Mount Katahdin in Maine, a journey later recorded in "Ktaadn", the first part of The Maine Woods. Thoreau left Walden Pond on September...
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    Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an 1854 book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple...
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    The Maine Woods Office, now the Phillips Community Building, is a historic commercial and community building on Main Street in Phillips, Maine. Built in...
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    resemble "the Kilimanjaro of New England", and it dominates the otherwise flat and endless forests of the North Maine Woods. Katahdin is also the northernmost...
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    Donahue, Paul (Winter 2001). "The Cabling of Luna". The Maine Woods. Forest Ecology Network. Retrieved January 18, 2013. The gravel road up to Luna took...
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    County, Maine, United States. It is on the Allagash River in the North Maine Woods region. The population was 237 at the 2020 census. According to the United...
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    Pohenegamook in the North Maine Woods region. It derives its name from the adjacent village of Estcourt, Quebec, which is part of the larger municipality...
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    Thoreau hired members of the Fowler family as guides on a trip to Mount Katahdin, which he wrote about in The Maine Woods. When the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad...
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  • Donahue, Paul (Winter 2001). "The Cabling of Luna". The Maine Woods. Forest Ecology Network. Retrieved 18 January 2013. The gravel road up to Luna took...
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  • Christopher Thomas Knight (category People from Fairfield, Maine)
    throughout the South, before abruptly driving back up to Maine, only stopping when his car ran out of gas, and at only 20 years old, entered the woods, saying...
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    pirogues in his book The Maine Woods. Pirogues in the United States are associated particularly with the Cajuns of the Louisiana marsh. The early Creole pirogues...
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  • consists of the Adirondack Mountains, as defined by the Adirondack Park. Within Maine, the Great North Woods include the Maine North Woods, which are unincorporated...
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    Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad (category North Maine Woods)
    3750 The Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad was a forest railway built to transfer pulpwood between drainage basins in the Maine North Woods. The railroad...
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  • Roxanne Quimby (category North Maine Woods)
    President Obama Designates National Monument in Maine's North Woods in Honor of the Centennial of the National Park Service". whitehouse.gov. August 24...
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  • North Woods Law is an American reality television series that debuted on March 11, 2012, on the Animal Planet channel. Originally set in Maine, the show...
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    the mountains of northern Maine woods and is often referred to as the Grand Canyon of Maine. The West Branch of the Pleasant River cuts through the earth...
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  • Longfellow Mountains (category North Maine Woods)
    The Longfellow Mountains are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains System, located within the North Maine Woods region of northwestern Maine. They extend...
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    appeared one or the other was not going to win, in order to avoid being a spoiler candidate. Woods specifically cited the 2010 Maine Gubernatorial election...
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  • The history of the area comprising the U.S. state of Maine spans thousands of years, measured from the earliest human settlement, or approximately two...
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    Arnold von Winkelried (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Emerson and in The Maine Woods (1864) by Henry David Thoreau. The Sempacherlied of ca. 1836, one of the expressions of Swiss patriotism during the period of...
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    logging operations in the area, has existed here since at least the time of Henry David Thoreau, who wrote about it in The Maine Woods. The village is now a...
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    works, Excursions (1863), The Maine Woods (1864), Cape Cod (1865), and A Yankee in Canada (1866). She also chose the editor for the publication of Thoreau's...
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    Percival P. Baxter (category North Maine Woods)
    Katahdin for the first time. In 1895 the Maine Proprietors Association had urged the state to turn that area of the Maine woods into a state park to attract tourists...
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  • North Woods (novel), a 2023 novel by Daniel Mason Great North Woods, United States Great North Woods Region (New Hampshire) North Maine Woods Northwoods...
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    Maine's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Maine. Covering 27,326 square miles (70,770 km2), it comprises nearly...
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  • its eponymous lake within the North Maine Woods in southwestern Aroostook County. Clayton Lake has been a logging camp since the 1920s. It is periodically...
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  • The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine were a group of 19th-century lumberjacks who exhibited a rare disorder of unknown origin. The syndrome entails an exaggerated...
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