Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
The small pleasure boats tied up around 1910 at the Richmond Campground boat landing are evidence of the shift to recreational activities at the Methodist Episcopal Campground after 1900.
Across the Kennebec River on the Dresden shore, the Cedar Grove Ice Houses were on the right. Owned by Cochran–Oler Ice Co. of Baltimore, the ice houses were started in 1870 and greatly expanded in 1885. Next to the ice house was the boarding house where laborers, mostly Aroostook County farm boys, stayed for the annual ice harvesting season.
In the middle of the photo was the Eastern Steamship Company wharf and freight house. Here the Boston boat landed in the morning as it made its way upriver to Augusta, stopping again in the afternoon as it headed back south. Many Campground guests arrived by steamship and were then ferried across the river.
Adjacent to the wharf was the large horse stable and a store. All work on the ice required many teams of horses.
About This Item
- Title: Boat landing at Richmond Campground, Richmond, ca. 1910
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Creation Date: circa 1910
- Subject Date: circa 1910
- Location: Richmond Campground, Richmond, Sagadahoc County, ME
- Media: Glass Plate Negative
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.111053
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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