Item 104195 - Ansel Smith's house, Chesuncook, 1912
- Item 104195 - Ansel Smith's house, Chesuncook, 1912
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Image Info Located about an hour from Millinocket, the village of Chesuncook was founded in 1849. By the early 1850s, Ansel Smith owned and operated a logging camp on Chesuncook Lake. Logging camps or lodges housed and fed local workmen, as well as travelers and sportsmen.
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Ansel Smith and Chesuncook both appeared in Henry David Thoreau's "The Maine Woods," who visited and observed the area.
