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Item 14452
Title: Women's Tennis Club, Bucksport, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Bucksport Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Location: Bucksport
Media: Photograph
Item 79474
Title: Northeast Harbor Tennis Club, ca. 1907
Contributed by: Northeast Harbor Library
Date: circa 1907
Location: Northeast Harbor
Media: black and white photograph
Item 79552
Title: Clubhouse and tennis courts, Christmas Cove, ca. 1910
Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society
Date: circa 1910
Location: South Bristol
Media: postcard
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In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.