Keywords: Rock End Hotel
Item 25014
The Rock End, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: 1883 Location: Mount Desert Media: Postcard
Item 81728
Rock End Hotel stoneware pitcher, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Mount Desert Island Media: Glazed stoneware
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
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.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family Business
"Rock End Hotel Owned by family members Herman LaFritz Savage, Herman Mardell Savage, and Verna Savage, 1883-1942."
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"… surrounding islands is unlike that of any other rocks in Maine. The entire island is located on what is called the Turtle Head Fault, so named for…"
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
