Keywords: Train ferries
Item 28568
Ferdinando Gorges ferry by moonlight, Bath, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: 1916 Location: Bath Media: Postcard
Item 108611
Railroad station and ferry landing, Woolwich, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Woolwich Media: Glass Plate Negative
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
Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad
"… today at 30 Parsons Street and is currently the Ferris Oil Company office. Presque Isle Historical Society Presque Isle Historical…"
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 1 of 3
"… and only ride that she would go on was the Ferris Wheel because the other rides were too fast and would make her sick."
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
