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Historical Items

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Item 26229

Old Orchard Railroad Walk, ca. 1907

Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: circa 1907 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Postcard

Item 26239

Old Orchard Street, from Post Office, Old Orchard Beach, ca., 1910

Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Postcard

Item 26231

Old Orchard Street from Post office, Old Orchard, ca. 1919

Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: circa 1919 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Postcard

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Designing Acadia

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

Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town

Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.

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."

Site Pages

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Site Page

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… rod iron fence on the Main Street side of the park is part of the original. I would say they got their money’s worth for that fence."

Site Page

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… common people some fine parts, at least, of this sea-side wilderness of Maine?” -- Charles Eliot, Garden & Forest , February 19, 1890, pp."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… away from home in these years to make a living at sea and bring home necessities and a few small luxury items to his growing family."