Aroostook County, Maine, USA

Aroostook County lies in Maine, linking established communities with the surrounding rural and suburban landscape. Houlton is the county seat in Maine’s largest county, a broad northern landscape of forests, rivers, farms and border communities. The area’s development reflects how Wabanaki history, lumbering, farming, fishing and border trade shaped settlement before modern highways linked it to nearby population centers. Forestry, agriculture, health care, tourism and small-scale manufacturing sustain local communities. The surrounding landscape remains part of Aroostook County’s everyday identity.