Keywords: Crescent Park
Item 16335
Crescent Park, Lake Nickerson, Houlton, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 59812
Rockland, Thomaston & Camden electric railroad lines, ca. 1931
Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: circa 1931 Location: Rockport; Rockland; Thomaston; Owls Head; Camden Media: Ink on paper
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."
Exhibit
An enduring element of summer camps is the songs campers sing around the campfire, at meals, and on many other occasions. Some regale the camp experience and others spur the camp's athletes on to victory.
