Keywords: boardinghouses
Item 98908
Emeline Park Residence, Main Street, Dixfield, ca. 1840
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Location: Dixfield Media: Ink on paper
Item 102266
Mrs. R. P. Colby residence, Westport Island, ca. 1908
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1908 Location: Westport Island Media: Postcard
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
Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women
Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.
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Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 3 of 3
"… quickly during this time and there was a large boardinghouse run by Mrs. John Leith for the quarrymen."
