Keywords: Eagle Island
Item 152081
The "Sunbeam IV" Moored at Eagle Island, 1963
Contributed by: Maine Seacoast Mission Date: 1963-04-13 Location: Eagle Island Media: Photographic print
Item 152078
Eagle Island resident John Littlefield, 1963
Contributed by: Maine Seacoast Mission Date: 1963 Location: Eagle Island Media: Photographic print
Item 85913
Fuller property, E. side Island Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Margaret U. Fuller Use: Summer Dwelling
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
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway
"… Washington, and had railway tracks built from Eagle Lake to the summit of Green Mountain. Clerque also built a hotel, named the Summit House, on…"
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"The island switchboard was located in the rear of the Dark Harbor Post Office from 1902 to c. 1915. The switchboard moved to a small house on…"
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
Story
An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania
Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021
