Keywords: Boston Yacht Club
Item 19153
Harbor and Yacht Club Pier, Bar Harbor, ca. 1933
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1885 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 79553
Christmas Cove, the Holly Inn and the Boston Yacht Club, ca. 1917
Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: South Bristol Media: Postcard
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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.
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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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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2
"Champlain Club camp and yacht log, Mount Desert Island, 1880Mount Desert Island Historical Society They spent their days sailing and rowing across…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts
"First Tarratine Golf Club, Islesboro, ca. 1912Islesboro Historical Society For more than a century, as the summer communities developed and…"
