Keywords: farmer's cottage
Item 15822
Rosemary Cottage, Eliot, ca. 1900
Contributed by: William Fogg Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Eliot Media: Postcard
Item 53008
Grange Cottage, Fairfield, 1912
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1912 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 151551
John S. Hyde farmer's cottage, Bath, 1913-1915
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913–1915 Location: Bath Client: John Sedgwick Hyde Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
The Advent of Green Acre, A Baha'i Center of Learning
The Green Acre Baha'i School began as Green Acre Conferences, established by Sarah Jane Farmer in Eliot. She later became part of the Baha'i Faith and hosted speakers and programs that promoted peace. In 1912, the leader of the Baha'i Faith, 'Abdu'l-Baha, visited Green Acre, where hundreds saw him speak.
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."
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould
"Gould then built a cottage on the land. Gould was very fond of the woods and enjoyed studying the native plants, flowers, and wildlife."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake
"Class picnics often took place at cottages on the lake where swimming, boating, and fishing were easily accessible."
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
