Keywords: Vacationers
Item 23399
Medicinal spring house, East Boothbay, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Boothbay Media: Photographic print
Item 25567
Mackerel Cove, Bailey Island, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Harpswell Media: Photographic print
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."
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.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.
"… start of Mount Desert Island’s influx of summer vacationers. Cole founded the Hudson River School, a famous movement of landscape and seascape…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History Of Performing Arts On Mount Desert Island
"… Desert has been a celebrated destination for vacationers and outdoor enthusiasts for well over a century."
Story
Carrabassett Village and the Red Stallion Inn circa 1960
by David Rollins
The creation of Carrabassett Village and the Red Stallion Inn at Sugarloaf USA