Maine Memory Network

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

"In some summers North Haven was also included in the stops. Ruth Orcutt remembers the steamboat years with fondness, and points out, “you knew people…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"Winter or Summer you can always enjoy the view. The covered bridge was built for the first time in 1830."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… to officially dedicate the hospital “built by the people for the people.” Plaques were put up in the new hospital to commemorate the donations of…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village Schools

"The building is used in the summer by church work groups that come to the area to assist needy people."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"It has provided a venue for concerts, summer theater, town meetings, and dances. Moving pictures were shown on Friday nights. St."

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

"… the Main Street business district is devoted to summer visitors and tourists. There remains one grocery store but the theater, the pharmacy, and…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"The North Village is a great place to live, the people are great and always willing to help in time of need."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Attendance peaked at 12,000 during some summer weekends. With the beginning of World War I and the new found interest in automobiles people started…"

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

"They built their log houses during the summer, went back to Beverly and Andover Massachusetts before winter and came the following year with their…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… or big hitters and would be offered a regular summer job in the town as well as money to play on the ball team."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"According to Cush Lane, a summer resident, when high tide fell around around 10:30 at night, there would be lobster boat lights flashing all along…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… made the first clearing in the forest during the summer of 1794, cutting trees for burning and for building, while his family remained in Falmouth."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Yet its greatest hardship would come in the late summer when British troops, victorious over the 10th Militia Division of Massachusetts in a rout in…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Pejepscot Historical Society

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"That summer under his direction, Elder Ezra Wilson and William Witham with a crew built the two abutments."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… that it “will mark a new era in the history of summer vaudeville entertainment.” This noble attempt to revive the park, however, was destined to…"

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"The steamers also brought an increase in summer tourism. Celebration "The first landing of a passenger and freight steamer from the outside…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Those in summer enter the Visitor Center, long desired by the State of Maine but left to genesis of a small, local Lubec non-profit organization to…"

Acadian Archives

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Colby College Special Collections

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… 1916 • Eagle Theater opens – movies, vaudeville, summer stock, Houdini! 1919 • Passamaquoddy Tidal Project proposed – two dams built in Eastport…"