Keywords: Treat's Island
Item 26475
View from Treat's Island, Lubec, ca. 1900
Contributed by: An individual through Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 33276
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1899 Location: Lubec Media: Postcard
Exhibit
Among the Lungers: Treating TB
Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.
Exhibit
The British capture and occupation of Eastport 1814-1818
The War of 1812 ended in December 1814, but Eastport continued to be under British control for another four years. Eastport was the last American territory occupied by the British from the War of 1812 to be returned to the United States. Except for the brief capture of two Aleutian Islands in Alaska by the Japanese in World War II, it was the last time since 2018 that United States soil was occupied by a foreign government.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2
"… of the social scene, and the members began to treat their time on the island less as a studious endeavor and more as a vacation (and indeed those…"
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island
"The island, through many changes, sometimes hard and bad, still has come to be proven as a beautiful place to visit in the town of Skowhegan."
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
