Piscataquis County, Maine: History
In June 1799, near Piscataquis County's three major rivers, people started clearing land and settling there.
In 1883, the Monson Railroad, a two-foot gauge commoner railroad, began operating in the county. It would be the last operating railroad of its type in North America.
From the 1970s to the 1990s, paper companies' land in the county was heavily harvested.