Keywords: Camp Chase
Item 10154
Camp Runoia craft shop, Belgrade Lake, 1951
Contributed by: Camp Runoia Date: 1951 Location: Belgrade Lakes Media: Photographic print
Item 98528
Civil War Letter, Alden D.Chase, Belfast, 1861
Contributed by: Belfast Historical Society Date: 1861 Location: Belfast Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
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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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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"… French traders and Native Americans and promptly chased them off. His company then sailed to the larger island of Islesboro, encountered more…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block
"SEE New NOTES Mary Camp Swanton and Henry Worcester Swanton, Ambrotypes, ca. 1864, BathPatten Free Library In addition to Zina Hyde, John Swanton…"
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima