Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
From the late 1800s to the mid-1900s summer visitors vacationed at the Swan Lake House on the west side of the lake. Coaches from Bangor made stops at both the Black's Corner Inn in North Searsport and the Swan Lake House.
Guests stayed for a couple of days to a fortnight, enjoying lake views from their rooms, dining on the hotel's wrap-around porch, canoeing, and fishing. Some may have gone swimming at Wilson's Beach, now Swan Lake State Park, or roller skating in the pavilion near the west shore.
The Swan Lake House had many proprietors during its history. One was E.L. Marden, rumored to operate a still on the hill above the hotel in defiance of prohibition laws. After the vacant hotel building burned in the 1960s, secret doors were discovered, behind which moonshine was allegedly hidden.
About This Item
- Title: Swan Lake House, Swanville, ca. 1935
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- Creation Date: circa 1935
- Subject Date: circa 1935
- Location: Swanville, Waldo County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 12.75 cm x 17.75 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.110444
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- Postcards--Maine
- Photographs--Maine--Swanville
- Hotels--Maine--Swanville
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(207) 548-2529
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