Keywords: Thomaston town records
Item 26399
Watts Block Fire, Thomaston 1915
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: 1915-06-06 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 26396
Thomaston Bank, Stereo View, Thomaston, ca. 1865
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Thomaston Media: Stereograph
Exhibit
Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875
Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.
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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
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources
"38, No. 2, July-August, 1947 Morse, F. L. S. Thomaston Scrapbook Thomaston Historical Society, Printed by Courier Gazette, Inc, Rockland, ME 1977…"
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources
"38, No. 2, July-August, 1947 Morse, F. L. S. Thomaston Scrapbook Thomaston Historical Society, Printed by Courier Gazette, Inc, Rockland, ME 1977…"
