Audubon's Rock, Dennys River, Maine

Photograph

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Dennys River Historical Society

Audobon's Rock, Dennys River, Maine: View from the Edmunds side of the river. The Mattheson house and the Dennysville Post Office are in the background.
Audobon's Rock, Dennys River, Maine

View from the Edmunds side of the river. The Mattheson house and the Dennysville Post Office are in the background.

Name/Title

Audubon's Rock, Dennys River, Maine

Description

Audubon's Rock in the Dennys River, Maine. Tradition records that John James Audubon sat on this rock to make some of his sketches during his visit to Dennysville in 1832. While staying as a guest of the Lincoln family with his wife and their two sons, he explored the area, collected and painted the Canada or Spruce Grouse, and witnessed the destruction of a temporary dam to clear a log jam above the Lincolns mills upstream. He described these episodes and other observations in his "Ornithological Biography," and in his essay entitled "The Force of the Waters", published in New York to help finance his ambitious project to record "The Birds of America."

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Digital

Collection

Contemporary Photographs of the Dennys River Area, Photos for Map

Web Links and URLs

J.J. Audubon's Spotted Grouse in Dennysville, Audubon's Dam Site on the Dennys River