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    Canal Inlet and Fishway on Meddybemps Lake

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    A dam and fish ladder connect Meddybemps Lake to the Dennys River through a canal dug during the nineteenth century to facilitate the harvest of alewives and other species on their way upstream.
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    Fishway on the Canal Inlet Dam at Meddybemps Lake View of Meddybemps Lake from the Canal Dam Meddybemps Village map in the Colby Atlas of 1881; The canal dam is one of two dams governing the flow of Meddybemps Lake into the Dennys River, as seen in this 19th century map of the the village from the Colby Atlas of 1881.