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    Tidal Marsh at Little Falls

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    Photographic view of the tidal marsh at Little Falls, noted on surveyors plan of the eastern portion of Edmunds in 1839, with a representation of the area from the Colby Atlas of 1881.

    This seventeen-acre marsh was a highly desirable wetland prized by the early settlers for its abundant wildlife and marsh hay. Divided between Nathaniel Hobart and his brother Isaac in the 1790s the land was originally diked to facilitate the harvest of hay, a practice that has continued to the present day.

    Tidal Marsh at Little Falls, now part of the Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge.; View of the seventeen acre tidal marsh at Little Falls seen in the 1881 Colby Atlas Map below.
    Marsh at Little Falls in Edmunds, Maine; Detail from the Colby Atlas Map of Washington County, Maine in 1881. Survey of Little Falls, Edmunds in 1839; A surveyors' plot of the mills, houses and a 17 acre dyked marsh near Duck Bay at Little Falls on a drawing entitled Eastern Portion of Edmunds, 1839.