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Historical Items

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Item 100223

High school, Rockland, ca. 1875

Contributed by: Rockland Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Rockland Media: Stereograph

Item 100112

High School building, Rockland, ca. 1875

Contributed by: Rockland Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Rockland Media: Half Stereo View, stereograph

Item 72953

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Corrine Sawyer, Rockland, 1912

Contributed by: Camden Public Library Date: 1912 Location: Rockland Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875

Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.

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Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter

Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.

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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."

Site Pages

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"Rockland, Me.: The National Archives Project, 1942. (S) Pepperell Sheet Feb.1941: 24. McArthur Library Special Collections. (A) Pepperell Sheet Oct."

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Snow Company shipyard in Rockland, Maine at 10 A.M on May 19, 1936. The ferryboat was christened by Miss Evelyn Randlett, who was Islesboro High…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… school, or boarding with other families in the Rockland and Mount Desert Island area. Some were able to return to the island on weekends."