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Lubec, Maine - Links

"… and uploaded over 800 historical images of early Lubec. View more Lubec images. The West Quoddy Head Light Keepers Association enhances the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"In the early 2000s, the original section of the highway was widened from four to six lanes. The highway has been designated a national civil…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"… 7 Photo of books taken by students X In early times, classroom books were quite different."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 1 of 6

"… portraits in the dark room at his Clover Cottage home, drawing small and detailed pencil sketches, or in the constant typewritten discourse about…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Permanent Settlement

"Richardson built his home further down the shore near what is now called the Sound. James and Rachel (Gott) Richardson had eleven children and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… the number and sheer opulence of these seasonal homes, all given grandly imaginative names such as “Bogue Chitto,” “Bournemouth,” “Chatwold,” and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History of Mount Desert Island

"… it became famous as a vacation resort and as the home of Acadia National Park. The extraordinarily beautiful and abundant natural environment, the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Development of an Island-wide Identity

"… contributions of those who have made it their new home. The island’s history should be counted among its wondrous natural resources – a treasure to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"At home, women were left to tend the farms, manage family business, care for the sick and elderly, raise children, and bear the awful news that too…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"… estates, five large hotels and 170 year-round homes. It surrounded the village, cutting off all roads."

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

"… uncles while the parents hosted guests in their homes. Most of the Savage lodgings were accompanied by the “American plan” of three meals, many…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"… of Penobscots camping near her family home (documents in the collection of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society)."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… Harbor to supervise the construction of a summer home for Mrs. Charles Dorr. On that same steamer, a Wabanaki canoe maker was carrying a fleet of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"… Museum The steamer Electa recently took home the Indians who have been at Bar Harbor for the season."

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

"Jacob B. Pike, photo X In the early Fifties, visitors could buy a postcard with a view looking over to downtown Lubec from the island of…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Living at the Lighthouse Not an easy life those early days, roadless dense forest isolating the early lightkeepers from the small farming population…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"… of Hugh French and his students in the early Eighties, and of Frank Van Riper in the early Nineties showed how traditional the process was without…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"… Harbor, (207) 276-3333 The library's archive his home to historical and cultural materials relating to the towns of Mount Desert and the Cranberry…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… pasture with a private road leading to his home. Between 1880 and 1890, the pasture was transformed into what we now know as Main Street."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… to spend more time at his family’s new summer home in Northeast Harbor (which Charles encouraged his father to build), apprentice in the landscape…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"They hunted. They made their clothing at home, beginning with raising the sheep and then weaving the wool."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"… SInce arriving in the 18th century, Islesboro's early settlers depended on privately owned boats for transportation to the mainland."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"… made in a building of the 1850s, if ever an early photographer had made to Lubec. Compare this with a photograph of the Brining Room in Part II…"

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"(The U.R.K.P. was disbanded in the early 1950s). The Third Battalion was located in Calais with its Company #11 in Eastport."