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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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    Maine (/meɪn/ MAYN) is the easternmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf...
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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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    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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    and it dominates the otherwise flat and endless forests of the North Maine Woods. Katahdin is also the northernmost mountain in the eastern United States...
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    Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living...
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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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    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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    hired members of the Fowler family as guides on a trip to Mount Katahdin, which he would later write about in The Maine Woods. When the Bangor and Aroostook...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Christopher Thomas Knight (category People from Fairfield, Maine)
    abandoned his job and drove up to Maine, only stopping when his car ran out of gas, and at only 20 years old, entered the woods, saying goodbye to no one. His...
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    Allagash River (category North Maine Woods)
    of wilderness in the Maine North Woods north of Mount Katahdin. The name "Allagash" comes from the Abenaki language, a dialect of the Algonquin languages...
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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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    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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  • 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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    recognized tribe in Maine and as a First Nations band government in the Atlantic provinces and Quebec. The Penobscot Nation, formerly known as the Penobscot Tribe...
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    wrote Henry David Thoreau in "The Maine Woods", "like tender beef, with perhaps more flavour; sometimes like veal". While the flesh has protein levels similar...
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