Keywords: Shore Acres Hotel
Item 17197
Shore Acres Hotel, Lamoine, 1927
Contributed by: Lamoine Historical Society Date: 1927 Location: Lamoine Media: Photographic print
Item 18265
Nathan A. Cushman, Portland, 1934
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1934 Location: Portland; Phippsburg Media: Oil on canvas and wood
Exhibit
The Advent of Green Acre, A Baha'i Center of Learning
The Green Acre Baha'i School began as Green Acre Conferences, established by Sarah Jane Farmer in Eliot. She later became part of the Baha'i Faith and hosted speakers and programs that promoted peace. In 1912, the leader of the Baha'i Faith, 'Abdu'l-Baha, visited Green Acre, where hundreds saw him speak.
Exhibit
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 Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"Soon after, Hewes Point became the second summer community, also having a hotel, cottages and wharf. Second Islesboro Inn, aerial view, ca."
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work
"… were six or more fish factories mostly on the shores of Minturn and Swan’s Island Village. Spurling’s Wharf on the Atlantic side was a factory that…"
