Keywords: Religious camp grounds
Item 109079
Auditorium at the Wesleyan Grove Camp Meeting, Northport, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Northport Media: Film Negative
Item 30937
Camp Meeting Scene, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"… Historical Society The first recorded religious meeting on Islesboro took place in 1791, in the barn of Joseph Boardman."
