Keywords: Comfort Manchester
Item 16080
Comfort Manchester Stanley, Trenton, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society Date: circa 1885 Location: Trenton Media: Photographic print
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At the heyday of trolleys in Maine, many of the trolley companies developed recreational facilities along or at the end of trolley lines as one further way to encourage ridership. The parks often had walking paths, dance pavilions, and various other entertainments. Cutting-edge technology came together with a thirst for adventure and forever changed social dynamics in the process.
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Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva
Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.