Keywords: Leap Year
Item 60521
Eastern Star party invitation, Lubec, 1916, 1916
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1916-02-22 Location: Lubec Media: Ink on paper, ribbon
Item 80717
Bar Harbor steamboat landing, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Maine Historic Preservation Commission Date: circa 1885 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Albumen print
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 Barns of the St. John River Valley: Maine's Crowning Jewels
Maine's St. John River Valley boasts a unique architectural landscape. A number of historical factors led to the proliferation of a local architectural style, the Madawaska twin barn, as well as a number of building techniques rarely seen elsewhere. Today, these are in danger of being lost to time.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor
"In 1881 the Mount Desert Herald reported: “Thirteen years ago the little steamer Rockland made one trip a week between Rockland and Millbridge…"
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block
"The fire, leaping the street, caught on the wooden building across Front Street. Gas tanks exploded and walls fell every couple of minutes, causing…"
Story
The Point
by Norma K. Salway
In the summer, on the eastern shore of Songo, kids dove from a leaning tree
Story
Decontie and Brown's venture in high fashion design
by Decontie and Brown
Penobscot haute couture designs from Bangor
