Keywords: Blue Hill Inn
Item 33854
Blue Hill Inn construction, Blue Hill, 1892
Contributed by: Blue Hill Historical Society Date: 1892 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photograph on paperboard
Item 29336
Contributed by: Blue Hill Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photographic print
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."
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4
"Blue Hill Inn construction, Blue Hill, 1892Blue Hill Historical Society The Summer Colony. The so-called rusticators came to Blue Hill's summer…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life
"In 1932 the Inn suffered the same fate as the hospital had and burned to the ground. Rusticators traveled to and from Maine by great steamships of…"
