Lake View is a plantation in Piscataquis County, organized on June 16, 1892 from the township T4 R8 NWP.
This rural area's is inspired by Schoodic Lake that dominates the plantation and the southern reaches of Seboeis Lake that intrudes into it.
Schoodic Lake derives its name from the Indian word sko-tum or trout. Moses Greenleaf's early map of the area names it Scootum Lake or Trout Lake.
The small community's near doubling in population may be due to the selling of large tracts of woodland to private individuals for the creation of wilderness estates.
