9 Mile Historic Cache Traditional Cache
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This is for 4WD transportation or canoe access only. The cache is located at the former camp of a canadian canoe poler who built this log cabin.
French explorer Samuel de Champlain named the river after sailing into its mouth on the Nativity of St. John the Baptist day in 1604. In 1927 Edouard "King" LaCroix built the road into Nine-Mile to get supplies into his backwoods operations. In 1931, LaCroix put the steel bridge across the river at Nine-Mile. LaCroix purchased the discarded one-lane bridge in St. Georges, Quebec, and transported it in pieces to be reassembled at Nine-Mile. Before the bridge, a ferry boat was operated to get across the St. John. Behind the campsite at Nine-Mile Bridge are the remains of a coal-fired steamshovel that was used in building the road and the bridge. The remains can be found with relative ease.
Nine-Mile Bridge was one of the busier spots along the river in the 1900's. Game wardens and fire wardens had homes for many years at Nine-Mile. The wardens would stay there year-round, snowbound during the winter months. Ice jams removed the bridge several decades later.
Near Seven Islands the river was crossed by an 18th century trail from the St. Lawrence River. There is an Abenaki burial site containing a large number of graves where the Big Black River joins the Saint John in township 18, range 13, WELS. Local legend maintains the confluence is haunted by the spirits of Abenaki killed by an epidemic of European disease. Near Allagash, the Saint John is joined by the Allagash River. The whole portion of the Saint John River that lies entirely in Maine is essentially a wilderness waterway, although many smoothly weathered granite boulders within the channel were broken by blasting during early 20th century log driving. Below St. Francis, the Saint John begins to form part of the International Boundary between Maine and New Brunswick.
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