Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Partners

"33 Summer Street Bath, Maine 04530 (207) 443-5141 ext. 18 http://www.patten.lib.me.us/history email: history@patten.lib.me.us Sagadahoc History Room…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… Columbian Hotel on Front Street between Elm and Summer Streets. In short order, Galen Moses replaced those buildings with the Columbia Theatre and…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"… on the floor of the General Court the following summer. The Federalist majority argued that because so many Maine citizens did not vote in May, the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… job, some lobstermen operated fishing party boats summer afternoons, taking groups to catch mackerel, pollack, flounder, cod and haddock along the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"… a nearby log cabin intended as a barracks for a summer flight school. This school, which opened on 8 April 1930, was the first in the nation to…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"However, most lobsters are caught in late summer and fall when they migrate closer to shore areas to molt."

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…"

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

"… Astors, Rockefellers and Fords spent their summers on MDI. Locals found employment with this growing summer population. Economy on Mt."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economy on Mt. Desert Island

"… MDI Biological Laboratory began as the Tufts Summer School of Biology in 1898, and the Jackson Laboratory was started in 1929."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - You Can Get Here From There

"With the development of Bar Harbor as a summer resort, and later the villages of Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor, the steamboats were essential in…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… referred to as people “from away” or simply “summer people”. The rusticators brought a new way of life to the area and expanded many cultural and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"… growing popularity raised concern, mainly among summer people, about over-development. Many felt that this unique place needed protection."

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

"Usually there was a play shown in the summer as entertainment for the summer population. These performances utilized the stage of the Odd Fellows…"

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

"… have music and dancing especially during the summer months when the summer population was present."

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"… landscape well before it became a favorite summering place of Indigenous peoples. European settlers made broad use if its natural resources, but…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"The so-called rusticators came to Blue Hill's summer colony on steamships that met their passengers at the railhead in Rockland."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 1 of 3

"Maine’s summer was like Vietnam’s winter. They came unprepared, with no jackets, ski pants, or mittens, and didn’t know what to do with all the cold…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Welcome to the town of Blue Hill!

"The community that has grown up at the foot of the mountain now encompasses a mix of people with many different backgrounds and a vibrant cultural…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… island's seagoing tradition had diminished, the summer yachting scene allowed many shipbuilders to continue on a smaller scale."

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"“Summer people” in Surry and in Blue Hill provided seasonal employment to a number of Surry people as well."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"Often, island homes were purchased by summer residents as people left for the mainland to seek work."

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

"Eventually summer visitors discovered the island for themselves, and it became famous as a vacation resort and as the home of Acadia National Park."

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."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… on Cascade Pond Ice harvesting and storage for summer use was prevalent through the land. In Hallowell the Moore family operated and ice business…"