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Description
This postcard shows Casco Castle, a large and imposing hotel with turrets and a crenelated roof line. Notice a stone tower is next to the hotel. Casco Castle was built in 1903 by the Brunswick-Yarmouth Street Railway as part of a recreational area that included an amusement park, a zoo, formal gardens, and a picnic area. The hotel burned down in 1914.
About This Item
- Title: Casco Castle, South Freeport, ca. 1910
- Creation Date: 1910
- Subject Date: 1910
- Location: South Freeport, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Postcard
- Dimensions: 9 cm x 14 cm
- Collection: O.R. Cummings Postcard Collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Casco Castle (Freeport, Me.)
- Amusement parks--Maine--Freeport
- Recreation--Maine--Freeport
- Railroads--Maine--Freeport
- Electric railroads--Maine--Freeport
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Seashore Trolley MuseumPO Box A, Log Cabin Road, Kennebunkport, ME 04046
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