Keywords: Hotel Florence
Item 78873
Hotel Florence, Bar Harbor, ca. 1975
Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1975 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 31607
R.J. McKee, Fort Fairfield, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historic Preservation Commission Date: circa 1920 Location: Fort Fairfield Media: Transparency
Exhibit
Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
Exhibit
While numerous Mainers worked for and against woman suffrage in the state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some also worked on the national level, seeking a federal amendment to allow women the right to vote
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s
"Florence Brooks Whitehouse was a very important member of the suffrage movement from Maine. She founded the Maine branch of the Congressional Union…"
Story
Carrabassett Village and the Red Stallion Inn circa 1960
by David Rollins
The creation of Carrabassett Village and the Red Stallion Inn at Sugarloaf USA
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
