Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"… 1893Southwest Harbor Public Library Making Accommodations By the mid-1880s, Bar Harbor boasted dozens of well-appointed hotels, including Rodick…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators come to MDI

"Boarding houses were built to accommodate this new influx of summer visitors – often referred to as “rusticators”."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Steamer "Bangor," 1847

"… as a freight vessel, so there were no sleeping accommodations -- and insufficient food. The beleaguered party, tired and hungry, arrived back in…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 3 of 3

"… called a basque, which divides at the back to accommodate walking. It features a bunched low-slung bustle. Designed by Boston dressmaker W.H."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison is Established - 1823

"… off hope of relief during the term sentenced” in accommodations furnished with the barest of necessities."

National Archives at Boston

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 3 of 4

"The back of the basque divides to accommodate a modest low draped bustle. The garment is trimmed throughout with colorful hand embroidered floral…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"… factory was soon too small, large as it was, to accommodate a constantly growing business, and a great warehouse was built in 1902 with over…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"… in the lesser quarters at the Inn or in smaller accommodations in the adjacent town of Northeast Harbor."

Maine Maritime Museum

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Maine Irish Heritage Center

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"Two nice canoes and good accommodations for six persons. Will warrant that good deer hunting be found.” One man who answered Joe’s ad was William…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"… aspect that is caught in the phrase, “tradition accommodates innovation.” At least two labor saving improvements were adopted in the early 1970s…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"… trading, and new business blocks were built to accommodate the needs of an increasing population."

The General Henry Knox Museum

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"… situated in various areas of the community to accommodate the children. Schools could be in private homes, in converted sheds or other structures…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… larger it proved inconvenient for one office to accommodate the whole island Betty CarlsonSwan's Island Historical Society So in 1884 an…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 2 of 2

"The facility has accommodated many patients in the sixty-five years that the new complex was constructed. Paine Hospital, Bangor, ca. 1964St."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… from the new depot grounds in this village, to accommodate those persons who may wish to attend the State Fair at Augusta."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"… with new Sibly Tents---Tents large enough to accommodate 20 men---and such as we had for winter quarters, I and it is rumored that we are about to…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… other good families in their Room; for the accommodation of Numbers that want Land, and to carry on the Fishery, Humbly request your Excellency and…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"… cutting a channel wide enough and deep enough to accommodate larger ships. This channel, or canal, became known as the New River."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… the heavily forested hills, roads were built to accommodate a stage line that connected East Dixfield with Dixfield Common, thence to the Village."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… to nationally-known traveling performers, and accommodating up to 12,000 patrons a day, now borders the present-day Avalon Village Retirement…"