Keywords: Bangor Waterfront
Item 43300
Train station and waterfront, Bangor flood, 1902
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1902-03-20 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Item 34554
View of the City of Bangor, 1837
Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: 1837 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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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."
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World
"1860Bangor Historical Society Text by 7th grade Maine Studies students of the William S. Cohen School. Images from Bangor Public Library and the…"
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Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976
"… Floods: 1902 and 1976 Train station and waterfront, Bangor flood, 1902 Partially submerged boxcars alongside a double-masted ship on the…"
