Keywords: Dry Mountain
Item 15015
1914 Stanley Steamer Mountain Wagon
Contributed by: Seal Cove Auto Museum Date: 1914 Location: Seal Cove Media: Metal and Rubber
Item 78959
George B. Dorr, Mount Desert Island, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Mount Desert Island Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Among the Lungers: Treating TB
Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru
"In 1813 it was voted to extend this road over the mountain, past the west side of Worthley Pond, and continue southeast to the Sumner town line…"
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5
"… the town with valuable shops, meeting spaces, dry goods stores and a barber shop. The Tuscan Opera House was built in 1891."
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR