Early Settlers of Allagash maine

Visit to the Moir Farm on the Allagash River 2012 

George had with him his wife, Lucinda (Diamond) Moir, who along with her three sisters, were instrumental in settling the town of Allagash. -Trevor O’Leary - 2015 

“By the 1900s, game wardens were hired by the state to protect Maine’s fish and wildlife. One such man was Henry Taylor. In the 1940s he, with his wife, Alice, built a set of sporting camps on the east side of the river, two miles south of the 44-foot high Allagash Falls. The couple summered there until 1984.”

One mile downstream from Michaud Farm, which is the last ranger station on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, there is an old farmstead that was settled in the mid-1800s by the Moir family. In 1906, Thomas Moir sold the Moir Farm to Frank W. Mallet and M.O. Brown from Fort Kent, along with Charles B. Harmon from St. John, for $2,500. Henry Taylor later acquired the land from them.