Keywords: Swimming Pool Club
Item 25003
Swimming Pool Club, Bar Harbor, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: 1903 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 25004
Swimming Pool, Bar Harbor, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1905 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
Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block
"… opportunities for athletic events such as swimming in the pool or playing basketball in the gym."
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3
"… on the Swift River, known as ABC, and covered for swimming. Fishing could be found at Half Moon Pond, on local brooks and streams, and in special…"
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
