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    Dam and Fish Ladder on Meddybemps Lake, Maine.

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    View of the fish ladder beside the dam on Meddybemps Lake during alewife run on the Dennys River in early May, 2023. "Meddybemps" is the Passamaquoddy word for "plenty of alewives."

    Meddybemps Fish Ladder During the Alewife Run, May 2023
    Eagles Eye view of the Dennys River at Meddybemps Dam

    Fish Ladder at Meddybemps lake in alewife season; View of the Dennys River Fish ladder on Meddybemps Lake during Alewife season, early May 2023
    Fish ladder and Dennys River Dam on Meddybemps Lake, Maine View of Meddybemps Lake from Dam on Dennys River. Meddybemps Village, from the Colby Atlas of Washington County, 1881; In the late eighteenth century, the Lincolns built a dam at the head of the Dennys River to controlling the flow of water from Meddybemps Lake to the mills in Dennysville. The dam was in use throughout the nineteenth century, and though the mills are gone, exists to this day.