Maine Memory Network

Eastern Yacht Club Pier, Bar Harbor, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard

Harbor and Yacht Club Pier, Bar Harbor, ca. 1933

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1885 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard

Club, Merchants Wharf, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Yacht Club Use: Club

Camden Yacht Club Study for Landscape Improvement, Camden, 1947

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1947 Location: Camden Client: Camden Yacht Club Architect: Olmsted Brothers

Designing Acadia

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.

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."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"… masquerade balls, musicales and lectures, yachting parties, horse shows, tennis tournaments, and an array of clubs which included swimming, canoe…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"Champlain Club camp and yacht log, Mount Desert Island, 1880Mount Desert Island Historical Society They spent their days sailing and rowing across…"