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Historical Items

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Item 7584

Frank Swan's Summer Camp Ca. 1905

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1905 Location: Madison Media: Photographic print

Item 7520

First Good Will Home orphans, Fairfield, 1889

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1889 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 98692

Summer cottages at Grimes Cove, Ocean Point, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Boothbay Region Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Boothbay; East Boothbay; Ocean Point Media: Glass Negative

Tax Records

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Item 87453

House & Home Company property, N. Side Epps Street, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: House & Home Company Use: Summer Dwelling

Item 87455

Pratt and House & Home Company property, N. Side Epps Street, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Albert N. Pratt and House & Home Company Use: Summer Dwelling

Item 76987

18 Summer Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Bartley Crowley Use: Dwelling - Two family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109247

Thomas Knight summer home, Brooksville, 1945

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1945 Location: Brooksville Client: Thomas Knight Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 109154

Joanne & Dick Warrens' summer house, Dedham, 1948

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1948 Location: Dedham Client: Dick Warren Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 109350

Summer residence of Hon. Wm. Tudor Gardiner, Woolwich, 1928

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928 Location: Woolwich Client: William Tudor Gardiner Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Summer Camps

Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.

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Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

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Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

Site Pages

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… of Ryder’s Cove and Hewes Point, the Dark Harbor summer people valued a more natural, rugged summer experience, including walking on the stone…"

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth Era: 1786-1807

"Letters Eliza wrote during the summer of 1800 indicate that she and Stephen Longfellow -- who was a favorite of both Eliza and Zilpah -- had an…"

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"… "...on our own street we have had a whole summer of dust already...for in our town is the constant stir up by the horse cars."

My Maine Stories

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Summers on Peaks
by Anna Greenfield

Memories of being a summer visitor and visiting Peaks Island

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Bunkers and Lodges
by Bob Martin & Emily Holdtman Martin

Growing up in Maine, summering in Maine, and how it's changed.

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Born in Bangor 1936
by Priscilla M. Naile

Spending time at the Bangor Children's Home