The Moosehead Lake Region, carved out of the last glacial age some 12,000 years ago, connected great river routes through the northern wilderness. For thousands of years, Native Americans canoed these waters, navigating to woodland summering grounds. By the 1830s, Moosehead Lake became a staging ground for early Euro-American logging, settlement, and outdoor recreation, with Greenville as its supply center. Early rusticators, like naturalist writer Henry David Thoreau, learned from Native Americans, like Chief Joe Attean of the Penobscot Nation, about the unbound bounty of woods and waters that lay before them, then captured the imagination of it for a waiting society. Later, guides like Greenville Algonquin Henry (Red Eagle) Perley and Penobscot Roland (Needahbeh) Nelson promoted this "Gateway to the North Woods" as an outdoor traveler's paradise. It is still today. Join the Moosehead Historical Society in an adventure that captures the spirit of the Maine wilds. The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today. Arcadia is proud to play a part in the preservation of local heritage, making history available to all.