Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures

"During the summer months Normie provides these very popular boat trips once or twice a week. Continued on next page"

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

"In 1894 when the first steamboat began a daily trip between Swan’s Island and Rockland, supplies would be delivered by the steamboat."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"The steamboat made a daily trip year-round from Swan’s Island to Stonington, Vinalhaven, Rockland and back."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… up to seventeen vehicles and makes multiple daily trips year round. It was now possible for islanders to take a car to the mainland, run errands…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"Travel of any distance was usually via boat or horseback. The arrival of the train, and later the trolley, allowed residents greater flexibility of…"

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

"The trip from Philadelphia had been slow because of contrary winds, and the captain was anxious to reach port."

Friendship Museum

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… Harbor landing was host to regular steam boat trips from Rockland, and thus began the third summer community on Islesboro."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"… on a wage scale that precluded any extra pleasure trips, and fewer people were riding the trolley to Portland for shopping."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"The fourteen-mile trip from the northern part of the island to the southern end was an all-day journey by horse and buggy."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"The trip provided further momentum to pursue Nowick’s goal of performing the Russian opera Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky in its original Russian one…"

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"So many boats had to be built quickly, that the boat builders had to use fresh, or green, wood to build them."

Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"… in a lot of different environments from ocean trips to coastal runs and on large inland bodies of water. Steamer, Lizzie M."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"In the meantime, the realer the raft on the ship had been tripped. And ugh oh it came down in the water."

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"The trip was anything but routine and the boat she was on was torpedoed and sunk. Mattie and other survivors spent ten hours in a lifeboat before…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"The average trip across took around twenty minutes, more or less, depending on the flow of the current and how high or low the river was."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… gold in the salt water there is little need of a trip to Alaska!” (The Alaskan Gold Rush was in full swing at this time, the major difference being…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"The trip was doomed from the beginning as boats were ordered only two weeks prior to the journey and the bateaux constructed from this wood were…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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