Keywords: Brooksville
Item 99270
Panorama of Buck's Harbor, South Brooksville, ca. 1955
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1955 Location: Brooksville Media: Photo negative
Item 98830
Bayside Lodge, Harborside, Brooksville, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Brooksville Media: Glass Negative
Item 151810
Cowan residence, Brooksville, 2013
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2013 Location: Brooksville Clients: Sophie Sides Cowan; Douglas Cowan Architect: Elliott and Elliott Architecture
Item 151853
Smith Cove residence, Brooksville, 2001-2003
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2001–2003 Location: Brooksville Clients: Lawrence MacElree; Jane MacElree Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Exhibit
Early Fish Canneries in Brooklin
By the 1900s, numerous fish canneries began operating in Center Harbor, located within the Brooklin community. For over thirty years, these plants were an important factor in the community.
Exhibit
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 Page
Blue Hill, Maine - Brooksville to Castine Ferry, 1907
"Brooksville to Castine Ferry, 1907 Contributed by Blue Hill Public Library Description A ferry boat that traveled from Brooksville to…"
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property
"… property: Lemuel (eventually a stonecutter in Brooksville who had 11 children) in 1871, Mina in 1874, and Charles in 1877."
Lesson Plan
Maine Monochromatic Oceanscape
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of the creatures that live in the Gulf of Maine, real and imagined. Students will be able to describe the creatures they learn about, first learning simple art skills, and then combining these simple skills to make an Oceanscape picture that is complex.