Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
Children posed outside the Richmond Campground boarding house and store about 1912. The building housed campers from the 1870s into the 1900s, and the shop sold merchandise to visitors and vacationers.
After severe storm damage during the winter of 1943/44 to the Richmond Campground Tabernacle, which had been built for in 1899 for campground religious services, this building was converted to the Campground church.
After World War I the Campground saw less use. Many buildings were lost to neglect or fire. In 1946 the Campground was bought by the Richmond Bible Conference and Camp Grounds, Inc., which ran a six- week non-denominational summer camp for all ages. Religion was mixed with handcrafts, musical training, and outdoor recreation.
By 1950, 50 private cottages, 50 camp-owned cottages, the Tabernacle, and a dining hall remained. The Maine Church of the Nazarene purchased the Campground in 1954. In the 1960s Central Maine Power bought the Campground and about 1000 adjacent acres to be the back-up site for Maine’s second nuclear power plant. CMP deeded that land to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife. As of 2021, it was named the Wilmot Brook Wildlife Management Area.
All Campground buildings were removed, but a few of the individual cottages remain elsewhere in town.
About This Item
- Title: Store and hotel at Richmond Campground, Richmond, ca. 1910
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Creation Date: circa 1910
- Subject Date: circa 1910
- Location: Richmond Campground, Richmond, Sagadahoc County, ME
- Media: Glass Plate Negative
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.102177
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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- Boarding houses
- Camp meetings
- Campgrounds
- Church buildings
- Hotels
- Nuclear power plants
- Stores
- Summer camps
- Wildlife management areas
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