Keywords: Atlantic Ocean
Item 22252
Ocean Drive, Acadia National Park, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Mount Desert; Bar Harbor Media: Photographic print
Item 13982
Atlantic Ocean water label, 1873
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1873 Location: San Francisco; Halifax Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.
Exhibit
Navy Firefighting School, Little Chebeague Island
Little Chebeague Island in Casco Bay was home to recreational facilities and a firefighting school for WWII sailors. The school was part of a Navy effort to have non-firefighting personnel knowledgeable in dealing with shipboard fires.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec
"From early April to late November, ocean-going vessels sailed up the Kennebec, forty-six miles from the open Atlantic, bringing Pennsylvania flour…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains
"… other places on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. At the outbreak of the Civil War 1861, Agry retired."
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
