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Eagle Lake (French: Lac Aigle) is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 772 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] The town was named by a body of troops heading from Bangor to the Aroostook War for the many eagles that they saw around the lake. [ 3 ]
Eagle Lake is the first, largest, and deepest lake of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in the North Maine Woods. [4] The lake covers the eastern side of Eagle Lake township. The southern end of the lake extends into Maine township 7, range 12, where it receives overflow from Indian Pond, and into Soper Mountain township where it receives overflow from Haymock Lake via Smith Broo
The Eagle Lake Tramway is a historic timber-transport mechanism in the remote North Maine Woods in northeastern USA. [2] The tramway, built in 1902 and operated until 1907, transported timber across a neck of land between Eagle Lake and Chamberlain Lake, with one end eventually becoming the eastern terminus of the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad in 1927.
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 operated only a few years in a location so remote the steam locomotives were never scrapped and remain exposed to the elements at the site of the Eagle Lake Tramway.
Location of Aroostook County in Maine. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Aroostook County, Maine. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
A helicopter takes off from the runway at Kenneth Copeland Airport near Eagle Mountain Lake on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Helicopter pilots train at the general aviation airport that originally was ...
Known in Maine as "The County", [7] [8] it is the largest county in Maine by total area, the second-largest in the United States east of the Mississippi River by total area [9] [10] [7] (behind St. Louis County, Minnesota), and the 31st-largest county in the entire contiguous U.S.
The site is located in the general vicinity of the mouth of the Big Black River, in a remote and hard-to-access portion of western Aroostook County. [2] This area was identified by archaeologists as potentially of interest, because the rivers in the area had not been dammed to harness their power, which had the added consequence of destroying archaeological sites located on river banks. [3]