Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 2 of 2

"On the white lace summer dress, a shoulder-wide lace panel covers and hangs over the entire bodice front."

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."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"Summer residents of Pine Point objected to crossing the double tracks, so the station was moved. Men and heavy equipment arrived about 9:00 A.M."

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

"… A post rider could ride 30 miles on a clear summer day; but in stormy winter or foggy spring weather, he could ride only a few miles a day."

Lubec, Maine - Team Members

"… (207) 733-2997 Fall/Winter/Spring (207) 733-2197 Summer http://www.mccurdyssmokehouse.org Lubec Memorial Library 55 Water Street Lubec, ME 04652…"

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."

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"A summer day, after school ended for the year, created for picnics and the usually placid waters of Gardner’s Lake, east of Machias in far Washington…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings

"and Emily Savage as their summer home while they rented out Harbor Cottage. Around 1915 the house was expanded further and rented to Dr. & Mrs."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Our Resources

"Henry Hatch Family, 1991. Summer Cottages: 1890-1930, Earl G. Shettleworth Jr. Published by the Islesboro Historical Society, 1989."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"… 17 of 1933, amidst much controversy between the summer and year-round residents, the Legislature repealed the 1913 law, which opened up the island…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"… topic within each category; Schools (Education), Summer Resorts (Recreation), Businesses/Cottage Industries (Land Use), Water Transportation…"

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

"… the children moved out of their bedrooms for the summer to bunk in with aunts and uncles while the parents hosted guests in their homes."

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…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

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

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - General Henry Knox Museum

"Each summer the museum offers a two-week summer teacher institute free of charge to history educators, encouraged and advised by Pulitzer…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… and Lubec to work in the canneries in the summer and fall” (p. 87). Judging from the teenagers and children in the group portrait, families must…"

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."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Permanent Settlement

"They arrived separately in Chebacco boats in the summer of 1761 and settled along the Sound. Somes built a log cabin along the shore in what is now…"

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

"… fishermen, merchants, educators, artists, summer residents, and retirees have come to call Blue Hill their home."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… greater luxury and privacy and built their own summer “cottages.” By 1890, the cottage-building boom had transformed Bar Harbor."

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"As time went by, other groups of summer residents followed in the footsteps of rusticators and came to summer in Blue Hill."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"… homes throughout town--some even with winter homes "in town" and then summer cottages out at the Pool or towards Kennebunkport."

Bar Harbor Historical Society

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