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Mount Kineo is a prominent geological feature located on a 1,150-acre (470 ha) peninsula that extends from the easterly shore of Moosehead Lake in the northern forest of Maine. With 700-foot (210 m) cliffs rising straight up from the water, it is the central feature of Mount Kineo State Park , a protected area of 800 acres (320 ha) managed by ...
The Kineo Cottage Row Historic District encompasses a collection of seven summer resort cottages on the Mount Kineo peninsula, which juts into Moosehead Lake in central Maine. The cottages were built between 1900 and 1912 as part of the Mount Kineo resort complex, one of interior Maine's most successful summer resorts of the early 20th century ...
Opened in 1963, the ski area is located on the north side of Big Moose Mountain (formerly Big Squaw Mountain until 2000), overlooking Moosehead Lake. The resort featured two chairlifts that covered 1,700 vertical feet. After a chairlift accident and subsequent closure, the ski area operated on a limited basis from 2004 to 2010.
The southeast end of Big Moose Mountain drains into Squaw Brook, then into Moosehead Lake. The southwest side of Big Moose Mountain drains into Indian Brook, then into Indian Pond and the Kennebec River. Big Moose Mountain is the location of Big Squaw Mountain Resort, an alpine skiing area.
Mount Kineo, with 700-foot (210 m) cliffs rising straight up from Moosehead Lake, has attracted visitors for centuries, from early American Indians (Red Paint People), to later tribes seeking its rhyolite to make stone tools, Penobscots and Norridgewocks, the Abenaki bands who battled here with their enemy the Mohawks, to 19th-century "rusticators" traveling by railroad and steamboat and today ...
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The Breakwater is a two-story wood-frame structure, set at the southern end of the narrow peninsula projecting south from Mount Kineo into Moosehead Lake, Maine's largest lake. The main block is set on stone piers and topped by a shingled hip roof, with a side ell of 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 stories that is gambrel-roofed.
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