 Allagash, a town in Aroostook County at the mouth of the Allagash River, was organized on September 28, 1885 as a plantation from the townships of T16 R10, T16 R11, T17 R10 and T17 R11. On January 31, 1966 it incorporated as a town and has the most land area of any minor civil division in Maine at 135.6 square miles.
The Allagash River flows through the town and is the tenth longest in the State. At 69 miles, it drains 1,240 square miles in northern Maine. Across the St. John lies the small Canadian town of Connors, in Madawaska County, New Brunswick.
Guide services, and stores provisioning hunting and camping expeditions, appear to be the mainstay of the town's economy in this community that is literally at the end of the line, since Maine Route 161 ends here with no where to go but back.
A surprising enterprise in Allagash, which does include conventional farms, is the small buffalo herd fenced in along Route 161.
From Maine: An Encyclopedia (www.themaineencyclopedia.com)
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