Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"Usually the whole family, including children, pitched in to help with the cleaning and seasonal move-in, move-out."

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

"1910Jesup Memorial Library The Bar Harbor summer colony reached its peak after the First World War."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

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

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… Old Ell from permanent residence into seasonal summer rental cottage lasted through the summer of 2010."

Fifth Maine Regiment Museum

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… builders were responsible for erecting the large summer homes for wealthy summer residents, who spent two to three months here."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"… and Penobscot families who encamped every summer at Bar Harbor. Most vacationers made at least one visit to the Wabanaki village to peruse and…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2

"He was the first in the family attend, even though he was not the oldest child. He came home for the summers and sometimes on the weekends."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"In Hallowell the Moore family operated and ice business for several generations. The icehouse was behind the family home."

Norcross Heritage Trust

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

"The Eliot family had been spending summers in the region since Charles was a young boy. The place was important to him, and he wanted to share the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"Then as an afterthought, he adds his family and writes: "The family of myself living in the village of Mexico Corner carless " By 1910, many of the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… close quarters for a family of seven during the summer months. Spring Cleaning at Hilltop House, Asticou, Northeast Harbor Maine…"

Stetson Historical Society

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… Catholic summer help who worked for the wealthy summer families. Islesboro’s churches have served a variety of needs of the community - spiritual…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"These families were by necessity forced to be close-knit and rely on each other at work and at play."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"Curtis of Boston. The Savages granted the cemetery property with a reservation of a 50 foot square Savage family plot under a deed of trust recorded…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… performances and tours were wildly popular with summer visitors; Frank “Chief Big Thunder” Loring was perhaps the most commercially successful of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"… Land Deeds in Early Maine,” Ethnohistory 36:3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 235-256) 3. Richardson, H. W., William M. Sargent, Leonard Bond Chapman, and E."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… its waters, canoeing to the headwaters each summer, and living in villages farther up river each winter."

Jonathan Fisher Memorial

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Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"Summer Cummings (1800-1848). Born in Waterford, Dr. Cummings graduated from the Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin College in 1823 and practiced…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… from Asticou Natural Partnerships with Three Summer Residents Dedication of Joseph H. Curtis Memorial, Northeast Harbor, 1933Mount Desert…"