Keywords: Shore Path
Item 24989
Shore Path, Bar Harbor, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1880 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 18975
Shore Path, Bar Harbor, ca. 1921
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1880 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
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.
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 Page
Historic Hallowell - News Article by Emily Markham
"Two major transportation paths have been swept away in the Kennebec. Hallowell city's train tracks were swept away leaving no train transportation…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling
"… landed upon the shore of the Kennebec and made a path for themselves to the spot where the old cotton factory now stands in Hallowell."
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima
