Grand Falls Dam, Maine

The international border with Canada runs through the Grand Falls Dam. The dam, built on top of the a waterfall known as Grand Falls, was constructed along with a power plant by the Woodland paper company in 1915. The paper plant, several miles downstream at the town of Woodland, opened in 1906, providing paper for the Boston Globe. It is one of dozens of paper plants processing the forest products of Maine. Upstream from the dam is the flooded land, referred to as flowage, covering dozens of square miles, much of it Indian reservation land. This flowage is part of a network of lakes, formed by dams to float logs, and power mills. Nearly all of the lakes in Maine were constructed in this way.