Keywords: passenger ship
Item 16383
The Steam Ship Horatio Hall, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: circa 1905 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 80786
Ship Yard Point, Moosehead Lake, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Moosehead Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.
Exhibit
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Site Page
"There were only 17 survivors. The Larchmont, which as the Cumberland brought passengers and prosperity to Lubec, now lies beneath 135 feet of water…"
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4
"Passenger service was reinstituted recently with the advent of Amtrak’s Downeaster service between Boston and Portland."
Story
A Note from a Maine-American
by William Dow Turner
With 7 generations before statehood, and 5 generations since, Maine DNA carries on.
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
