Keywords: Bar Harbor Swimming Club
Item 25003
Swimming Pool Club, Bar Harbor, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: 1903 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 25004
Swimming Pool, Bar Harbor, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1905 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Exhibit
For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise
"Bar Harbor Swimming ClubJesup Memorial Library By 1890, Mount Desert Island boasted some 20,000 “summer people”—both visitors and cottagers."
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2
"… eastern shore, and visit the villages of Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor, and Somesville. The Logbooks Champlain Society Camp log, Mount Desert…"
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
