Mt. Kineo, midway of Moosehead Lake. Kineo is a peninsular of land extending from the easterly shore into the lake, containing eleven hundred and fifty acres (4.7 kmē). Mount Kineo, with 700 foot (213 m) cliffs rising straight up from Moosehead Lake, is an unforgettable setting that has lured people for centuries. Native Americans once traveled great distances to Mt. Kineo, relying on its flint-like rhyolite to make stone tools
History
It is composed of a peculiar geological formation of flint rock known as silicious slate or bornstone. It is the largest mass of this rock known in this country and was well adapted to the use of the Indians in making arrowheads, hatchets, chisels, etc. As Indian implements made from this rock have been found in all parts of New England and even farther to the southward, it is evident that the red-men visited this mountain for centuries for the purpose of obtaining this material.
Map of Mt. Kineo region.
Kineo is in the heart of an immense primeval wilderness that is unbroken to the Dominion of Canada. In 1846 when Henry D. Thoreau visited the Moosehead Lake region, Kineo Mountain, its geological formation, its Indian relics and its traditions all deeply interested this great author and philosopher.
A Hotel called the Mount Kineo House (http://baharris.org/historicpolandspring/MtKineo/MtKineo.htm) was built in 1884, and nestled in the rugged highlands of Maine on the shores of the mighty Moosehead Lake. Following the purchase of the hotel by the Maine Central Railroad in 1911, the Hiram Ricker Hotel Company was engaged to operate the hotel.
Mt Kineo Golf Course is located on Moosehead Lake and is thought to be the second oldest course in New England, built in the 1880's
Among the lake's most dramatic features is the cliff-face of MountKineo, located on the narrows across from the small community of Rockwood.
MountKineo, isolated on its peninsula, has always offered an impressive landmark; it was revered by Native Americans.
At its base, a nine-hole golf course is among the few reminders of the historic MountKineo House, which in the late nineteenth century was one of the largest hotels in America.
The Kineo Hotel, known also as Kineo House, evolved from a small tavern in 1844 into a world famous palace, with nearly 300 rooms and a dining room which could seat 400, by the advent of the twentieth century.
From the lookout are grand, majestic views: Little Kineo, Big and Little Spencer Mountains in the northeast, the Lily Bay Mountains in the southeast, Big Squaw in the south, the conical peak of Coburn in the southwest behind Blue Ridge and Misery Ridge and the three rolly-poly humps of Boundary Bald Mountain in the west.
Of course, all around Kineo is the grand expanse of Moosehead Lake, to the west is Brassua Lake and in the east is Spencer Pond.
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