Katahdin
Katahdin was believed to be the home of the storm god Pamola, and thus an area to be avoided.
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Katahdin Details
Katahdin is referred to 60 years after Field's climb of Agiokochuk (Mount Washington) in the writings of John Gyles, a teenage colonist who was captured near Portland, Maine in 1689 by the Abenaki. While in the company of Abenaki hunting parties, he traveled up and down several Maine rivers including both branches of the Penobscot, passing close to "Teddon". He remarked that it was higher than the White Hills above the Saco River. Among some Native Americans, Katahdin was believed to be the home of the storm god Pamola, and thus an area to be avoided. The first recorded climb of "Catahrdin" was by Massachusetts surveyor Charles Turner, Jr. in August 1804. In the 1840s Henry David Thoreau climbed Katahdin, which he spelled "Ktaadn"; his ascent is recorded in a well-known chapter of The Maine Woods. A few years later Theodore Winthrop wrote about his visit in Life in the Open Air. Painters Frederic Edwin Church and Marsden Hartley are well-known artists who created landscapes of Katahdin. On Nov. 30 2011, Christie's auctioned Church's 1860 painting Twilight(Katahdin) for $3.1 million. In the 1930s Governor Percival Baxter began to acquire land and finally deeded more than 200,000 acres (809 km²) to the State of Maine for a park, named Baxter State Park after him. The summit was officially recognized by the US Board on Geographic Names as "Baxter Peak" in 1931. Because "Katahdin" means "Greatest Mountain", "Mount Katahdin" means "Mount Greatest Mountain", which local people maintain is incorrect, however the official name is Mount Katahdin as decided by the US Board on Geographic Names in 1893. At the summer solstice and vernal and autumnal equinoxes, Katahdin is the first place in the United States mainland to receive sunlight in the morning. Source: Wikipedia
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Nearby Points of Interest Around Katahdin
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Pamola
Pamola is a legendary bird spirit that appears in Abenaki mythology.
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Baxter Peak
Baxter Peak is the highest peak of Katahdin and the highest point in Maine.
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Cathedral Cut-off
This short cut-off is a connector trail that by-passes Baxter Peak.
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South Peak
Located in the southern section of the Baxter State Park and has an elevation of 5,240 feet.
