Keywords: automobile rides
Item 11530
Two women posing in 1907 Knox Automobile, Portland, ca. 1907
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1907 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 11358
Stanley Mountain Wagon, Eustis, 1911
Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: 1911-07-01 Location: Eustis 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
History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways
Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station
"Train service improved greatly and long waits for automobile ferries disappeared. Passenger and freight train traffic increased enough to justify the…"
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4
"… Rising operating costs and increasing use of automobiles weakened the financial situation of the trolley lines."
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
