Keywords: steam travel
Item 12985
Touring by Stanley Steam Car, ca. 1919
Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: circa 1919 Location: Ossipee Media: Photographic print
Item 11944
Visiting neighbors in an Early Stanley Steamer, Lexington, 1906
Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: 1906 Location: Lexington Twp. Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Somerset Railroad
The Somerset Railroad was completed in 1872. It started out as a dream to link the Maine Coast with Canadian businesses to the north. It ran from the North Woods around Moosehead Lake down to Southern Maine and back again for 56 years.
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
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor
"… to and from this port.” City of Richmond steam ship, ca. 1882Maine Historical Society In 1884, a railroad extension from Bangor through…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators
"… bays or lakes (powered by oar, paddle, sail or steam)? Brave an island tour in a buckboard? Stroll a field and pick wildflowers? Some combination…"
Story
The Oakfield Inn
by Rodney Duplisea
This is a summarized article about the opening of the Oakfield Inn. It appeared in the Bangor Daily
