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A steamboat of the type using the canal between Sebago Lake and Long Lake about 1910. Freight to and from Oxford County began moving over the Atlantic & St Lawrence Railroad (later Grand Trunk Railway and then Canadian National Railway Berlin Subdivision) in the 1850s and the 18-mile (29 km) long Presumpscot River portion of the canal fell into disuse when the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad ...
Sebago Lake State Park is a public recreation area encompassing 1,342 acres (543 ha) on the north shore of Sebago Lake in the towns of Naples and Casco, Cumberland County, Maine. It opened in 1938 as one of Maine's original five state parks. [1] The mostly forested park is divided into east and west sections by the Songo River. [4]
Songo Lock is the last surviving lock of the Cumberland and Oxford Canal, a 19th-century canal in southern Maine, United States.The lock is located on the Songo River, just above its confluence with the Crooked River at the northern end of Sebago Lake State Park in the town of Naples.
The Songo River is a 3.1-mile-long (5.0 km) [2] river in Maine.The river flows from Brandy Pond at the south end of Long Lake into Sebago Lake at Sebago Lake State Park. Songo Lock, the last remaining lock of the 19th-century Cumberland and Oxford Canal, controls the elevation of Long Lake and allows navigation of large boats between Long Lake and Sebago Lake.
The shoreline is heavily developed with residences and seasonal cabins, and there is a boat launching area near the highway where the pond overflows into Sebago Lake. [2] White perch , chain pickerel , smallmouth bass , and largemouth bass thrive in the shallow portions of the pond; and land-locked Atlantic salmon use the deeper parts of the ...
The lake has a hand boat launch and cabin camping. The American Canoe Association and the New York chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club have camps on the lake. The latter is named "Nawakwa", [ 3 ] and dates to 1926, while the former, originally built for the Rogers Peet Company, was built in 1928 and was taken over by the ACA in 1933.
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Camp O-At-Ka, founded in 1906, is a boy's sleep-away camp located along a half mile of waterfront in the northwest corner of Sebago Lake. Camp Sebago, a co-ed camp geared towards 7-12 year olds and run by The Salvation Army, is located on the southwestern corner of the lake. Camp Wohelo, the original Camp Fire Girls camp (WOrk HEalth LOve) was ...