Keywords: Silver Beach
Item 14556
Rockledge Hotel at Popham Beach, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Popham Beach Media: Glass Negative
Item 14846
Toot's Cottage, Cape Elizabeth, ca. 1910
Contributed by: An individual through South Portland Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Cape Elizabeth Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Following his historic flight across the Atlantic in May 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh commenced a tour across America, greeted by cheering crowds at every stop. He was a day late for his speaking engagement in Portland, due to foggy conditions. Elise Fellows White wrote in her diary about seeing Lindbergh and his plane.
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.
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
