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Historical Items

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Item 10487

Mt. Hope Chapel and Office, Bangor, ca. 1909

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1909 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 22142

View of Sanford from Mt. Hope, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 34291

Civil War Memorial, Bangor, ca. 1875

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1875 Location: Bangor Media: Stereograph

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109805

Receiving Tomb for Mount Hope Cemetery, Lewiston, 1894

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1894 Location: Lewiston Client: unknown Architect: George M. Coombs

Item 109099

Eastside Elementary School, Bangor, 1952-1953

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1952–1953 Location: Bangor; Bangor Client: City of Bangor Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Online Exhibits

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A Craze for Cycling

Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Hiking, Art and Science: Portland's White Mountain Club

In 1873, a group of men, mostly from Portland, formed the second known hiking club in the U.S., the White Mountain Club of Portland, to carry out their scientific interests, their love of hiking and camaraderie, and their artistic interests in painting and drawing the features of several of the White Mountains.

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Luxurious Leisure

From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.

Site Pages

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Welcome and Introduction

"Our hope is that this project will continue, that new material will be added in the future, and that we never stop discovering the history of Mount…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"Hoping that the “cool waters of Eden” might invigorate body and soul, vacationers, referred to as rusticators, soon followed the artists."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings On Wheels

"… expression and extension of the ambitions and hopes of people within this family through the generations."

My Maine Stories

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Service in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan by MAJ Adam R. Cote
by Adam R. Cote

Military Service has had a deep impact my life