Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"It costs $2.00 to get to Lincoln on the steamboat. The steamboat is about the size of a train and it’s so crowded that you can’t move very much."

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

"Ruth says of the steamboat schedule, “Life did revolve around it. And the storekeepers and the fishing community and the church…it was a close-knit…"

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…"

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec

"… sea captains, the history of schooners and steamboats, hazardous ice cutting, shipping, whaling, and also the waterfront."

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

"Arriving in Bar Harbor Bar Harbor steamboat landing, ca. 1885Maine Historic Preservation Commission Arriving at the Bar Harbor wharf…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel

"… the trees that line both sides of the road on Steamboat Hill. Ocean View Hotel, Swan's Island, ca."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"Sieur de Monts Steamboat, Islesboro, ca. 1901Islesboro Historical Society The first steamboat wharf on Islesboro was built at Lime Kiln in Pripet in…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards

"The Boston & Bangor Steamboat Company (1834-1935) serviced a steamboat wharf in Hampden and carried passengers and freight from town to town along…"

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."

Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"… and motor vehicles replaced Kennebec River steamboat traffic just as the granite industry gave way to concrete and steel."

Historic Hallowell - Transportation

"The Hallowell Eastern Steamboat Wharf was located at the bulkhead, which is a dividing wall between compartments in a ship."

Norcross Heritage Trust

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The Boston and Bangor Steamboat Company (1834-1935) serviced a steamboat wharf in Hampden and carried passengers and freight from town to town along…"

Moosehead Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Winter Fun

"Donald LeMoine is heading down Steamboat Hill Road. It is one of the better sledding roads in Swan's Island Village except that it ends at the water."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Redmen's Hall

"Redmen's Hall Waterfront with steamboat, Swan's Island, ca. 1920Swan's Island Historical Society The Improved Order of Red Men was a national…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store

"The store ran in the period of Swan's Island history when the steamboat still connected island residents to Rockland."

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

"The independence of islanders to raise their own food remained strong even as the steamboat service to the island improved."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"… Maine Infantry band, and whistles were from the steamboat Calvin Austin. Also waiting for the arrival of the Governors were hundreds of cheering…"

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

"Steamboats were replacing the sailed boats and thus were better able to get the fresh catch to the markets in a timely manner."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The Boston and Bangor Steamboat Company (1834-1935) serviced a steamboat wharf in Hampden and carried passengers and freight from town to town along…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… the season, at the shore between Suminsby’s and Steamboat Wharf, Bar Harbor, a number of Birch-bark canoes, in which he will take parties to…"

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

"… 1894 this old mail route was discontinued and a steamboat company contracted to bring the mail daily from Rockland to Old Harbor This is a much…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Steamboat service made tourism possible. For that thank two brothers. Henry and Seth Clark were in the shipping business and operated a shipyard on…"