Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"… for cattle and sheep and used the marsh for summer pasture. Many settlers were often assigned a marsh lot (or lots) for grazing their animals…"

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"… their travels and several of them purchased summer cottages or retirement homes along the ponds and bay."

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

"It quickly swept through 67 summer estates, five large hotels and 170 year-round homes. It surrounded the village, cutting off all roads."

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 became a permanent home for Mame as well summer living quarters for her brother Richard and his growing family – his wife Ernestine and…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"Relatively open passenger cars were used during summer months, and closed cars were used during the remaining months."

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…"

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

"They would relocate their families to smaller, more humble dwellings, such as the Old House, in the summer."

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."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"My mother at first stayed at home- most house wives stayed at home- and I’m a little ambiguous about that. It pays to have a mother in the house."

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."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"Julia continued to spend her summers at her home in Strong until her death in 1912. In 1920 the school building was moved up Main Street where it…"

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."

Abbot Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"Desert Island's summer residents have always played an important role in the character of the small coastal community."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"Well, boys and girls, every year on a warm summer's afternoon, at about the time of the Bangor Fair, I think of a happening from my early days on…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3

"… but would return to Saint Anthony's Cottage every summer. In the winter she stayed with friends in Lewiston."

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

"… he began to spend more time at his family’s new summer home in Northeast Harbor (which Charles encouraged his father to build), apprentice in the…"

Wilson Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"Berrying in the summer was an annually awaited event. According to local historian Ruth Kidder: Often the team was harnessed and the wagon filled for…"

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."

Jonathan Fisher Memorial

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

"What was left of it eventually became the summer home of Eric and Fran Chetwynd. The current house is a much smaller, but recognizable version of the…"

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

"… settlers on Mount Desert Island, began taking in summer boarders at Harbor Cottage. From here on until the mid 1960s, the Savage family and…"