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Chesuncook (/ tʃ ɪ ˈ s ʌ n k ʊ k /, chih-SUN-kuuk) [2] is a small unincorporated settlement on the northwestern shore of Chesuncook Lake in rural central Piscataquis County, Maine. A small village, originally supporting logging operations in the area, has existed here since at least the time of Henry David Thoreau, who wrote about it in ...
Chesuncook Village is a small settlement located on the northwestern shore of Chesuncook Lake with a year-round population of approximately 10 people on this otherwise uninhabited lake. It is in an unorganized township in the heart of the east coast's largest unsettled logging forest and is considered to be the last wilderness area on the ...
Gero Island is a large island on Chesuncook Lake in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States. The island is 3,175 acres (1,285 ha) in area, with all but 133 acres (54 ha) regulated. It is known for exemplary natural communities of slender rush as well as white pine forest and lower elevation spruce-fir forest.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
Log jam at Ripogenus Gorge during 1870s log driving.. 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 of private individual and private industrial owners and state government agencies, and is divided into 155 unincorporated townships within the NMW management area. [1]
The river flows from Seboomook Lake in Seboomook, Somerset County.The lake's principal inflows are the North Branch and South Branch Penobscot River.From Seboomook Dam the river runs about 25 miles (40 km) east and northeast to Chesuncook Lake, thence (after flowing through Chesuncook) about 20 miles (32 km) southeast through the southwest corner of Baxter State Park to the Pemadumcook Chain ...
The unorganized territory (UT) of Maine is the area of Maine that has no local, incorporated municipal government. The unorganized territory consists of 435 townships, primarily heavily forested areas of the state's north, east, and west, along with de-organized municipalities and islands.
It is the fifth-largest lake system in Maine, exceeded only by Moosehead Lake at 74,890 acres (303 km 2), Sebago Lake at 28,771 acres (116 km 2), Chesuncook Lake at 23,070 acres (93 km 2), and Flagstaff Lake at 20,300 acres (82 km 2). The Pemadumcook Chain of Lakes occupy 18,300 acres (74 km 2). [2]